It rained sharks in Myrtle Seashore, South Carolina, final month after a small hammerhead shark fell from the sky and interrupted a neighborhood disc golf sport.
The surprising disc golf hazard was really a chook’s misplaced lunch.
Jonathan Marlowe, who snapped these now viral images of his buddy holding up the aquatic predator, wrote on social media that they noticed a chook carrying the shark earlier than it was accosted.
“Teeing off on 11 at Splinter [Disc City Golf Course] and noticed an osprey carrying one thing over us,” Marlowe wrote. “Two crows chased it right into a tree the place it dropped its prey.”
Within the images, the shark gave the impression to be slightly greater than a foot lengthy.
Whereas hammer throws could have been within the forecast for the golf outing, a hammerhead definitely wasn’t.
“I’ve by no means seen this,” Marlowe wrote.
In keeping with NOAA, scalloped hammerhead sharks are present in principally tropical waters however can vary as far north because the New Jersey shoreline and might develop as much as 11 toes lengthy.
