Out slid a broken fragment from a swordfish sword that had lanced straight through her brain. In the latest example, an adult 15-foot thresher shark washed up in Libya. Inside was a foot of swordfish sword that had broken off near its heart. So a published record of half a dozen stranded sharks with suspiciously precise wounds could indicate that these encounters are common — and that a swordfish sword is sometimes exactly what it sounds like. Jambura led a study of the recent dead thresher shark, which turned up this April.

Source: Libya Today November 10, 2020 02:15 UTC