 This species inhabits shallow waters close to shore and has been known to enter estuaries.Several nonexclusive hypotheses have been proposed to explain the extreme size of the winghead shark's cephalofoil.The placement of the eyes at the ends of the cephalofoil provides a binocular field of view of 48°, the most of any hammerhead and four times that of a requiem shark; this species thus has excellent depth perception, which may aid in hunting.