{"id":782844,"date":"2026-09-26T03:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782844\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:56:12","slug":"dead-shark-found-on-druridge-bay-beach-in-northumberland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782844\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead shark found on Druridge Bay beach in Northumberland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The animal was recovered from Druridge Bay by volunteer medics from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) yesterday (September 24).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It has since been taken to the charity&#8217;s North East triage unit, where it is being kept in cold storage ahead of collection by the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The shark&#8217;s species has not yet been confirmed, although some commenters on social media had suggested it could be a porbeagle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A BDMLR spokesperson said: &#8220;The deceased shark, whose species isn&#8217;t yet confirmed, was found by our volunteer Marine Mammal Medics last night.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was taken to our North East triage unit, where it is being held in cold storage until it can be collected by the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  CSIP has a limited remit to investigate stranded non-cetacean species of particular interest and will determine whether any information about the shark can be gained from a post-mortem examination, known as a necropsy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  BDMLR said it does not currently have a date for when the animal will be collected and that no further information is available at this stage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Photos of the shark circulated on social media yesterday, with some commenters suggesting the images could have been AI-generated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  BDMLR later said it was aware of the incident and sent medics to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The animal was recovered from Druridge Bay by volunteer medics from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) yesterday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-782844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}