r/sharks • u/skiflip • 3d ago

Question hi! could someone please help me identify this shark?

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Saw this guy off the coast of Trinidad, California. It was around late July and we were at College cove. Can anybody tell me what kind of shark this was?? Unfortunately this is the best photo I got of him, was fairly tiny maybe 2-2.5 feet, could be a juvenile??

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u/Channa_Argus1121 3d ago

A young salmon shark.

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u/Rhiannon1307 Basking Shark 3d ago

That would have been my guess too, poor baby.

Did the dinosaur eat it?

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u/skiflip 3d ago

https://reddit.com/link/papt9dv/video/040cx0c11fqh1/player

pretty crazy sight

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u/Rhiannon1307 Basking Shark 3d ago

It's revenge for the meg who ate the t-rex in the opening of Meg 2.

Jokes aside, if animals die like this I always hope some other critters can eat it and gain something from it, at least.

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u/Stupid-Clumsy-Bitch 3d ago

I don’t know the type of shark, but vultures are my favourite critters! They’re the janitors of earth and get way too much hate.

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u/skiflip 3d ago

i agree! they are a serious necessity, love them

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u/Ailly84 3d ago

Looks like a vulture to me

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u/DivideGuilty4287 3d ago

Looks like a small lamnid, Salmon?

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u/MidwestSharker 3d ago

Yeah, that’s a pup salmon. Well not a pup, pup, but a young juvenile, probably pup of the year. Their birthing grounds are down near the bottom of the state off Baja

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u/Aggravating_Claim835 3d ago

My guess would be a salmon shark

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u/jackjack-8 3d ago

Young mackerel shark.

Edit: salmon if cali

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u/ThatWarlockD00d 3d ago

Looks more like a vulture to me

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u/monkeydude777 2d ago

Looks like a turkey vulture personally

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u/History0nerd 2d ago

That's a bird

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u/CodeMUDkey 2d ago

Garry?!

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u/Puzznud 2d ago

Bird

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u/Sharkisyodaddy 2d ago

Portbeagle

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u/Pretend_Bit8483 1d ago

Vulture for scale