Us Weather Latest: Sharks Freeze to Death Amid Extremely Low Temperatures
29th December 2017
Along the New England coast, the cold appeared to be at least partially the culprit in the deaths of three thresher sharks found washed up on the shores of Wellfleet and Orleans on Cape Cod over the past several days, according to scientists.
We don’t hear about the sharks until paragraph 18.
Skomal hypothesised that the sharks, which are usually about 12 feet long, had begun to make their way south as northerly waters cooled, but got trapped by Cape Cod, as have wayward dolphins before them, and pushed up onto the beach, where the cold may have hastened their death.
Three paragraphs about sharks in the entire article.