Hammerhead sharks are able to deep dive to frigid, near-freezing waters to catch rare prey. But scientists have long been confused about how the cold-blooded animals survive such cold waters.

Hammerhead sharks like it warm, but for a good meal they’re willing to get cold. The flat-headed predators dive more than 2,600 feet from tropical surface waters into the ocean’s frigid depths ...

Whales and other deep-diving mammals are known to hold their breath (SN: 9/23/20).But this is the first time the behavior has been spotted in diving fish, says Mark Royer, a shark physiology and ...

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As such, the scientists say they didn’t expect sharks like the hammerhead to exhibit similar behavior when diving deep. But it makes sense that hammerheads would hold their breath to stay warm ...

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A group of disc golfers witnessed a baby hammerhead shark fall from the sky while in the middle of a game in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The dataset included over 5,300 sightings of six shark species, including hammerhead sharks, tiger sharks and bull sharks, between 2013 and 2019 in the Protea Banks reef of South Africa.

When hammerhead sharks begin some of their deepest dives, they do the piscine equivalent of what a human would do: they hold their breath. Sharks don’t breathe air, of course, but they can close ...