The thresher shark spends most of its time in the deep waters of the open sea, rarely straying into coastal areas. To survive in these colder waters, they have evolved to be endothermic.

A rare 1,000lb thresher shark has been sighted leaping in mid-air as it swam alongside hundreds of dolphins off the Welsh coast. The 16ft shark leapt out of the water half a mile off the ...

When a thresher shark attacks, it doesn’t lunge in teeth-first. Instead, it approaches a school of fish, lowers its head, flexes its body and thwaps its whiplike tail over its head.