Whodunit solved when ‘sword’ is found embedded in thresher shark – Livescience.com

When a dead thresher shark washed up onshore, it was obvious what had killed it a swordfish had stabbed it from behind and left a large hunk of its “sword” embedded in the beast, a new study finds.
No one saw the actual attack, so it’s unclear why the swordfish jabbed the shark. But the two ocean predators may have been competing for prey, the researchers said.
“The most likely scenario is that both species were hunting on a school of fish or on squids in the deep,” said study lead researcher Patrick…

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