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A nature photographer captured the moment a thresher shark breached the water in the Strait of Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada, and leaped into the air. Video recorded by https://www.instagram.com/p/Cko32kmJj9F/ Simon d'Entremont shows the animal's impressive tail fly several feet above the water. Thresher sharks https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0067380 are known to use their scythe-like tails to stun prey while hunting. D'Entremont told Storyful that he believed a sea lamprey had attached itself to the shark causing it lunge out of the water. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62916-w Sea lamprey are a parasitic jawless vertebrae native to the northern hemisphere. They are known to attack and parasitize sharks for the high level of https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109564330400162X?via%3Dihub urea in their blood. (Footage by Simon d'Entremont/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)