The 10-foot-long female stopped breathing after locals tried several times to coax her back into the water. The cause of the animal's death remains a mystery.
A great white shark washed up on South Carolina's Myrtle Beach earlier this month in a rare and unusual stranding — and the reason behind the beaching remains a mystery.
In a series of pictures attached to the social media post, the shark appears to be stuck in a shallow pool. Its dorsal fin, eyes and gills are clearly visible, white the rest of its body is submerged. More photos show the shark lying in the back of a pickup truck with scratches to the underside of its mouth and sharp teeth exposed between protruded jaws. In the final picture posted by Alden, the young female hangs from a digger by its tail.
"A necropsy revealed nodules on the shark’s spleen but no conclusive cause of illness; our biologists are sending off tissue samples for further analysis to hopefully learn more," SCDNR representatives wrote in a Facebook post on April 6. The investigation could take several months."We’ve sent the tissues to a lab that has experience performing pathological analysis on white shark tissue samples," an SCDNR spokesperson told Live Science in an email."We have not received results yet and think it may take one or two months before a report is completed."
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