A man in the U.S. captured the moment a Bonnethead, a species of hammerhead shark, fell from the sky in the middle of South Carolina.
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Jonathan Marlowe was playing disc golf, a sport that combines frisbee and golf, when he and his friends saw an osprey fighting over the small shark with a group of crows.
He told Garden & Gun magazine that he expected to find a fish but was surprised to see a shark on the ground.
“I thought it was just an ordinary fish. We couldn’t believe it, we kept saying: ‘Did that really just happen?’” he recalled. He left the osprey’s dead prey in a tree in case the bird returned to retrieve it.
The osprey didn’t return, which left the other disc golf players stunned by the presence of the marine animal.
“They were just standing there, shocked, with no explanation for what could have happened. But then they saw my post and said: ‘Thank God! Because how do you explain a random hammerhead shark in the middle of the woods?’” he said.
The incident went viral on social media, with users making jokes about the movie “Sharknado,” which shows several sharks falling from the sky after being swept up by a tornado.
“That’s a Land Shark,” joked one user. Another commented: “You never know what you’ll find on a disc golf course.”
The Bonnethead is a species of the hammerhead shark family that can grow from 90 cm to 1.5 meters in length.
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