"But I never heard the one about a thresher shark cutting a man's hand off with its tail."

The site is best known as the only place in the world where thresher sharks can be seen regularly before sunrise.

The thresher shark has a short head and a cone shaped nose.

Thresher sharks are solitary creatures which keep to themselves.

Thresher sharks are managed in some areas for their value as both a recreational sport fish and commercial species.

This category includes, for instance, the mako and thresher sharks.

No distinct breeding season is observed by thresher sharks.

But plenty of blue sharks and thresher sharks, including a 373-pounder, were donated.

Somebody did, and soon a nine-foot thresher shark was splashing off the stern.

At some distance from the shore a mighty struggle was in progress between a thresher shark and a whale.

The three extant thresher shark species are all in the genus Alopias.

The small mouth is arched and, unlike in other thresher sharks, has furrows at the corners.

Thresher sharks use their long tails to stun the shoaling fish.

When hunting schooling fish, thresher sharks are known to "slap" the water, herding and stunning prey.

Common thresher sharks are the target of a popular recreational fishery off Baja, Mexico.

The bigeye thresher shark is rarely encountered by divers underwater and poses no danger.

One display model depicts a thresher shark creating a whirlpool in which a ring of sardines has become trapped.

Quint counters by rolling up his pants leg to reveal a wicked white scar from a thresher shark.

Thresher sharks are classified as prized game fish in the United States and South Africa.

The thresher sharks have an extreme example of this tail in which the upper lobe has evolved into a weapon for stunning prey.

You find thresher shark and albacore and bluenose sea bass on the list of daily specials these days.

Indeed, the long-tailed or common thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, is named the fox shark by some authorities.

Like other thresher sharks, nearly half its total length consists of the elongated upper lobe of the tail fin.

Thresher sharks are one of the few shark species known to jump fully out of the water, making turns like dolphins; this behaviour is called breaching.

Family Alopiidae (thresher sharks)

The bigeye thresher (Alopias superciliosus) is a species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae, found in temperate and tropical oceans worldwide.

Thresher sharks are large lamniform sharks of the family Alopiidae found in all temperate and tropical oceans of the world; the family contains three species, all within the genus Alopias.

The pelagic thresher (Alopias pelagicus) is a species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae; this group of sharks are characterized by the greatly elongated upper lobes of their caudal fins.