A dead, partially frozen shark washed up on an icy beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts over the weekend.
A neighborhood photographer stumbled across the carcass as she took a stroll along a beach, aptly called Cold Storage Beach, in Dennis, around 2:30 p.m.
The photographer, Amie Medeiros, took an image of the shark laying on its side on the icy sand and shared it on Instagram.
She said the frozen animal was “not what I used to be expecting to search out on my frozen winter adventure,” within the comments.
The massive fish, believed to be a porbeagle shark, could have died from an injury to its side. Mederios’ photographs show it has gashes above its fins.
Ice covered parts of the carcass in addition to the vast majority of the beach as temperatures dipped below freezing in the world, in response to the National Weather Service.
Shark sightings across Cape Cod waters spiked over the summer as people flocked to the beaches of the favored vacation spot. Beaches across the East Coast were shut down as a consequence of the sightings and even some minor attacks.
