A massive hammerhead shark that recently washed up dead on a beach in Alabama was carrying 40 unborn pups, a necropsy (animal autopsy) has revealed. But it is unclear what killed the expectant mother.
The female great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran), which measured around 14 feet (4.3 meters) long, was discovered April 20 in the shallows near Orange Beach. A group of passersby pulled the lifeless giant onto the beach and contacted the city's coastal resources team, who recovered the corpse, city officials wrote on Facebook.
