{"id":185425,"date":"2025-06-15T04:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T04:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185425\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T04:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T04:04:15","slug":"hammerhead-shark-falls-out-of-sky-on-south-carolina-disc-golfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/185425\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammerhead shark falls out of sky on South Carolina disc golfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It rained\u00a0sharks\u00a0in\u00a0Myrtle Beach,\u00a0South Carolina, last month after a small hammerhead shark fell from the sky and interrupted a local disc\u00a0golf\u00a0game.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected disc golf hazard was actually a bird\u2019s lost lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Marlowe, who snapped these now\u00a0viral\u00a0photos of his friend holding up the aquatic predator, wrote on social media that they saw a bird carrying the shark before it was accosted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeeing off on 11 at Splinter [Disc City Golf Course] and saw an osprey carrying something over us,\u201d Marlowe wrote. \u201cTwo crows chased it into a tree where it dropped its prey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the photos, the shark appeared to be a little more than a foot long.<\/p>\n<p>While hammer throws may have been in the forecast for the golf outing, a hammerhead certainly wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75335121;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36239053\" width=\"444\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shark-falls-sky-unsuspecting-disc-106460195.jpg\" alt=\"A disc golfer holds up a baby hammerhead shark dropped from the sky onto the course in South Carolina.\" class=\"wp-image-36239053\"  \/>A disc golfer holds up a baby hammerhead shark dropped from the sky onto the course in South Carolina. FOX Weather via Jonathan Marlowe<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77659574;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36239052\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/shark-falls-sky-unsuspecting-disc-106460188.jpg\" alt=\"The unexpected disc golf hazard was actually a bird's lost lunch.\" class=\"wp-image-36239052\"  \/>The unexpected disc golf hazard was actually a bird\u2019s lost lunch. FOX Weather via Jonathan Marlowe<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen this,\u201d Marlowe wrote.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0NOAA, scalloped hammerhead sharks are found in mostly tropical waters but can range as far north as the\u00a0New Jersey\u00a0coastline and can grow up to 11 feet long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It rained\u00a0sharks\u00a0in\u00a0Myrtle Beach,\u00a0South Carolina, last month after a small hammerhead shark fell from the sky and interrupted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[933,70,934,15483,16,15,727,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-185425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-sharks","11":"tag-south-carolina","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-us-news","15":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114685402809622758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}