EASTHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - A dead shark was found washed up on a beach on Cape Cod on Thursday, officials said.
Officials to a report of a shark stranding on First Encounter Beach in Eastham found a deceased porbeagle shark, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
Scientists from the NOAA Fisheries Service Apex Predator Program will conduct a necropsy.
The porbeagle is a species of mackerel shark and they are native to the north Atlantic and south Pacific oceans.
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