Hammerhead

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Hammerhead may refer to:

• The head of a hammer.

In zoology:

• Hammerhead sharks (genus Sphyrna), of which there are nine known species.
• Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta), a bird of order Ciconiiformes, may also be known as a hammerhead

In music:

• Black Market/Hammerhead, a 2004 EP by heavy metal band Solace

• Hammerhead (vinyl), its 2006 vinyl re-release

• "Hammerhead (song)", the first single from The Offspring's upcoming album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
• "Hammerhead" (John Zorn song), a song by John Zorn from the 1989 album Naked City.

In fiction:

• Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy a 2005 TV movie starring William Forsythe, Jeffery Combs and Hunter Tylo
• Hammerhead (Dino-riders), a Rulon character from the TV cartoon Dino-Riders
• Hammerhead (comics), a Marvel Comics foe of Spider-Man
• Hammerhead, the shark humanoid creature from The Maxx comic books and animated series
• Hammerhead, the nickname for the Star Wars character Momaw Nadon
• Hammerhead Hannigan, the leader of Taurus Bulba's henchmen in the television cartoon series Darkwing Duck
• SA-43 Hammerhead, a fictional strike fighter spaceplane in the setting of the television show Space: Above and Beyond

In military history:

• USS Hammerhead, the name of two ships in the United States Navy:
  • USS Hammerhead, (SS-364), a Balao-class submarine, commissioned in 1944.
  • USS Hammerhead, (SSN-663), a Sturgeon-class submarine, commissioned in 1968 and struck in 1995.

In sports:

• Jupiter Hammerheads, a minor league baseball team based in Jupiter, Florida.
• Wilmington Hammerheads, a minor league soccer team based in Wilmington, North Carolina.
• Corpus Christi HammerHeads, a professional arena football team.
• Hammerhead maneuver, an aerobatic maneuver

In games:

• Hammerhead, a heavy helicopter gunship in the video game Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
• Hammer Heads, a computer game from PopCap Games.

In other categories:

• Hammerhead (attraction), a former ride at Knott's Berry Farm, now defunct
• Hammerhead ribozyme, which can catalyze the sequence-specific cleavage of RNA phosphodiester bonds