The head and tail of a shark believed to be rarely seen in British waters were cut off after the animal was found dead on a beach. 9News
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Later, Snow and a group of local residents dragged the 2.4m shark from the beach to a nearby road to secure the carcass."We have recovered a good chunk of it but some trophy-hunters got there just before us and they took the head and the dorsal fin on the tail," he said. "Smalltooth Sandtigers are seldom encountered and considered naturally rare. In the Northeast Atlantic their range reaches to the French coast at the top of the Bay of Biscay. Making this report an exceptional one," the trust said in a statement.
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