A frozen, dead shark washed up on a beach in the northeastern US, a sign of just how frigid it was over the weekend.
The predator turned up at Cold Storage Beach in Dennis on Saturday as temperatures fell below zero degrees Fahrenheit. Dennis is a small town in the center of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
A photographer, Amie Medeiros, snapped images of the shark around 2.30pm that day and shared one on Instagram. Ice was coated on parts of the carcass and on the beach where the shark lay. The big fish had gashes near its right fin, indicating that it may not have died due to the cold alone.
The low for the day was negative 8 degrees in the morning and the wind chill temperature was negative 32 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
A shark biologist in the state, J Chisholm, identified the creature as a porbeagle shark.
‘Pretty sure this is one that originally washed up last week and has been moving around with the big tides,’ he tweeted on Saturday. ‘Unlike the others, this one is a male.’
On Monday, Chrisholm shared that he had stopped by to observe the dead shark to get measurements and compare it to another male porbeagle that had washed up the prior week.
‘Unfortunately, someone took the tail, dorsal fin, pectoral fin and what was left of the teeth,’ he tweeted, along with several photos.
Medeiros captioned her photo: ‘”Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they’re alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way – cleanly, clearly. That’s the essence of ice, the role it plays.” Haruki Murakami.’
Cape Cod saw a high number of shark sightings last summer, which caused multiple beach closures.
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