Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed.
1A yellowfin tuna, a great barracuda, and, if they had just been a little better prepared, a twenty-foot thresher shark.
2The sharks in the footage are "pelagic" or "open water" threshers , one of three species of thresher shark.
4Understanding how thresher sharks feed will help with efforts to protect them, Oliver said.
5The Sword-fish and Thresher Shark also help to destroy this harmless giant of the deep.
6How does the Thresher Shark hunt its prey?
7Thresher sharks use their impressive tails to stun several prey at once with sharp "tail slaps", scientists have confirmed.
8Looking like big bluish shadows, thresher sharks went by, eight feet long and gifted with an extremely acute sense of smell.
9Records from fisheries published in 2003 revealed that numbers of thresher sharks have fallen by 75% in just 15 years through overfishing.