Very little is known about the mysterious porbeagle shark. 🌊 Get a taste of #SharkWeek EARLY and stream Return to Shark Vortex right now on discovery . Then don’t miss the main event starting Sunday, July 11 at 8p on Discovery and #discoveryplus. links.discoveryplus.com/sharkweek | Shark Week

Here is a great video of one of the most beautiful and unique sharks we are researching here at the Atlantic Shark Institute, the porbeagle shark. Valerie Preler, Chris Littlefield and Chris Blansfield were fishing for cod off Block Island, RI in May when the cod they were fighting got about 100 times heavier. They soon realized they were also fighting a porbeagle shark! Porbeagle sharks love these groundfish and often can’t resist a fish in distress, and the tiny vibrations they put off when fi

1.6K views · 57 reactions | A small porbeagle shark was spotted in St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia. Porbeagle sharks, often confused with shortfin mako sharks, can be differentiated by a distinctive white patch on the trailing edge of the first dorsal and a secondary keel on the caudal fin. : Sean Potter of Hacketts Cove | The Atlantic Shark Institute | Facebook

52K views · 526 reactions | Porbeagle shark steals a pollock right off of my jig! #shark #sharks #fishing #interesting #outdoors | Fish RI | Facebook