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Osprey drops hammerhead shark onto disc golf field

Andrew Paul

created: June 10, 2025, 6:07 p.m. | updated: June 20, 2025, 5:56 p.m.

There, a man playing through a disc golf course witnessed an osprey drop a sizable hammerhead shark after being beset by crows. The osprey had given up a hammerhead shark. Known for its distinctive head shape called a cephalofoil, there are 10 known species around the world, with several populating the southern US coasts along the Atlantic. Three species are known to roam the waters near South Carolina according to the state’s Department of Natural Resources—the bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo), scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini), and great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran). As LiveScience notes, a new, rare species known as the Carolina hammerhead (Sphyrna gilbert) was also discovered around the same region in 2013.

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