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The 500-kilo shark was discovered on Torrevieja's Playa de la Mata, Alicante
An early morning beachgoer in Torrevieja got quite a scare when he came across a huge 13-foot shark weighing more than 500 kilos that had been washed ashore dead.
The bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus), images of which appear to show flesh wounds on its back, was spotted on the coastline of the municipal 'Molino del Agua' nature reserve on La Mata beach at around 9am on Friday January 27.
The Local Police were immediately notified and an environmental patrol along with officers from the Guardia Civil's Nature Protection Service, Seprona, were sent to the scene.Una hembra de tiburón cañabota (Hexanchus griseus) de 500 kilos ha aparecido varada esta mañana en la playa de La Mata de Torrevieja, en Alicante.
— Oceanogràfic València (@Oceanografic_vl) January 27, 2023
Un ciudadano ha avistado al ejemplar y, tras avisar a la Policía Local, se ha puesto en marcha la Red de Varamientos de la CV. pic.twitter.com/9AsbsdJtP7
The municipal cleaning service removed the shark's body from the beach on Friday afternoon and it is expected that specialists from the University of Valencia and Oceanogràfic will travel to Torrevieja to perform a necropsy on the animal.
The bluntnose sixgill shark, also known as the cow shark, is the largest hexanchoid shark, growing to up to 20-foot in length. It is typically found in tropical and temperate waters worldwide and its diet is widely varied by region
Last August, the skeleton of what's believed to be a four-metre shark (around 13-foot) washed up on La Marina El Pinet beach in Elche. And just days earlier, five popular Barcelona beaches were closed after three sharks were spotted lurking close to the coast.
Image: Oceanogràfic Valencia
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