Shark Stabbed Through the Heart by a Swordfish

This past April, a trio of citizen scientists made a strange discovery on a beach in Libya. They spied the 14.5-foot body of a dead thresher shark sloshing in the tide and, upon closer inspection, saw something strange: what turned out to be a swordfish bill sticking out of a deep, penetrating wound between the creature’s head and dorsal fin.

Shark Stabbed Through the Heart by a Swordfish

Ernest Hemingway would love it.

Same species as was seen down the road.

It shows there is a lot to learn yet.

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