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 ...

But common Atlantic thresher sharks show up around this part of the Northern Atlantic this time of year, in late Summer, as this is their breeding season. They can also live for nearly 30 years ...