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Relative to its body size, the winghead shark has the widest head of any hammerhead—almost half as wide as its body is long.

In seconds the hammerhead appeared under the left pontoon. The shark was long, and utterly horrible. Its eyes stuck out on the extremities of the crossbar that is part of its head. It looked at me, ...

Now, the hammerhead has that really unusual head. Everybody remembers that head. So, when there is one of these defensive bites, victims can identify the shark quite easily. Whereas if it's just a ...

The great hammerhead shark measures about 10-14 feet in length with a massive weight estimated at 900-1,280 pounds. The great white shark, on the other hand, measures between 18 and 26 feet in ...

A great hammerhead shark circles beneath the water, surrounded by smaller fish. Image by Annie Guttridge. Image by Annie Guttridge. Image owned and provided by the authors and must be credited to ...

These fields are detected by special sensory organs called the ampullae of Lorenzini, which are largely concentrated around the shark’s head. In hammerhead sharks, these organs are spread all ...

These majestic sharks gather in their hundreds at huge volcanic seamounts that project out of the seabed. They come here to be cleaned and to find a mate, circling the seamount in a sort of ...