Massachusetts woman finds frozen shark washed up on Cape Cod beach

A dead, partially stiff shark washed ashore a Cape Cod beach this past play amid record-breaking acold temperatures successful nan Northeast. 

"Def not what I was expecting to find connected my stiff wintertime adventure," section photographer Amie Medeiros shared successful an Instagram post. 

On Saturday, Medeiros captured nan images of nan stiff encrusted shark amid a sadistic acold threat that plunged nan Massachusett's peninsula to subzero temperatures connected Friday and Saturday. 

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The partially stiff shark was recovered astatine Cold Storage Beach successful Dennis, Massachusetts. (@capeimagesbyamie/Instagram via Fox 35)

The shark which washed ashore astatine Cold Storage Beach successful Dennis, Massachusetts, was pictured resting connected 1 side, rima agape showcasing razor crisp teeth.

"While nan acold whitethorn look for illustration nan astir apt culprit down nan shark’s demise, an wounded to its correct broadside whitethorn bespeak a different cause," FOX Weather noted.

Marine biologist John Chisholm astatine nan Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life shared that nan ample stiff shark was a antheral porbeagle.  (@capeimagesbyamie/Instagram via Fox 35)

The shark is believed to beryllium a antheral porbeagle, according to a Twitter station by marine biologist John Chisholm from nan Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life. Porbeagle sharks tin measurement 12 feet and measurement betwixt 300 and 500 pounds.

He believes nan shark is nan aforesaid 1 that primitively washed up a week anterior connected different Cape formation and resurfaced and froze owed to nan beneath freezing temperatures. 

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The porbeagle is warm-blooded – dissimilar immoderate type of sharks – which allows it to unrecorded successful areas specified arsenic nan chilly waters of nan North Atlantic. 

Porbeagles for illustration cold, temperate waters, Oceana said, according to FOX Weather.

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On Monday, nan marine biologist went to nan formation to get immoderate measurements of nan shark and recovered that personification had taken its tail, dorsal fin, pectoral fin, and nan shark's teeth.