{"id":801524,"date":"2026-08-03T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801524\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:17:10","slug":"14-foot-hammerhead-shark-washes-ashore-in-carolina-beach-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/801524\/","title":{"rendered":"14-foot hammerhead shark washes ashore in Carolina Beach :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-foot great hammerhead shark washed ashore on the north end of Carolina Beach on Sunday, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wect.com\/2026\/08\/02\/14-foot-hammerhead-shark-washes-ashore-carolina-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WECT reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina Shark Conservancy first received word of a shark in the surf around 3 a.m. The animal slipped back into the ocean before washing ashore again that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the shark\u2019s size, a team from Carolina Beach Ocean Rescue, the Carolina Beach Fire Department, and the Carolina Beach Police Department worked together to bring the animal fully onto the shore. <\/p>\n<p>Experts said the shark was already dead when emergency crews retrieved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-foot great hammerhead shark washed ashore on the north end of Carolina Beach on Sunday, as WECT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[38343,79,8207,201],"class_list":["post-801524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-carolina-beach","tag-science","tag-shark","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}