The thresher shark, a marvel of natural engineering, utilizes its exceptionally long tail as a powerful weapon, stunning prey with rapid, whip-like strikes. This unique adaptation, enabled by ...

Off Alor Island in the vast Indonesian archipelago, researchers and conservationists are using tagging technology to track endangered pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus), many of which are ...

Thresher sharks can use their lengthy tail fins to swat sardines from shoals, researchers have found by taking underwater footage. Such tactical use of the tail fin during hunting — which was ...

Thresher Square is a combination of two structures of different heights that were built four years apart. The older Advance Thresher Co. has six floors while its adjoining neighbor, the Emerson Newton ...

BLAM! Thresher sharks strike to kill with their scythe-like tails, as seen in new video footage. A thresher shark strikes. (Credit: Klemens Gann/The Thresher Shark Research and Conservation Project) ...

Editor's note: This is the next in our series leading up to the 50th anniversary on April 10 of the loss of USS Thresher. The loss of USS Thresher on April 10, 1963, marked the first time in history a ...

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The shark appears out of nowhere, charging at a school of fish many times its size. It gets up close to the towering column, right in their fishy faces, pauses so briefly you barely notice, then whips ...