Massive hammerhead shark washes up on Florida beach

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A team of scientists from the American Shark Conservancy took samples and identified the shark as a female great hammerhead, after moving the body away from onlookers.Hannah Medd, a conservation scientist and the founder of the American Shark Conservancy, told CNN that she and her team took the shark's measurements as well as fin clippings to test its DNA and muscle tissue for biopsies.

But the stress of catch-and-release, combined with wounds from fishing hooks, can sometimes lead to death."We get a call for maybe one to four a year [hammerheads] that have washed back up."

 

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