The common thresher attack stuns and immobilizes its prey with a rapid strike with its tail, then moves in for the kill. (Still Image: iStock/bearacreative) Astronomers Create First Realistic ...

A three-quarter view of a micro-CT scanned vertebral column segment and a single micro-CT scanned vertebra of a common thresher shark. In the thresher column, the frontmost vertebra is a ...

A sub-species of the thresher shark family, the bigeye thresher, is classified as endangered in most of the Atlantic Ocean. But common Atlantic thresher sharks show up around this part of the ...