Authorities say capture of bull and tiger sharks necessary to protect lives as environmentalists launch urgent legal challenge Some beaches in areas of New Caledonia are closed to swimming and the ...

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles. Scientists with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre captured footage of a ...

An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...

A rare encounter with a southern sleeper shark in the deep, chilly waters of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean has scientists reimagining what fauna might live in such a harsh, extreme environment. Footage ...

Contender, a large male great white shark tagged by the marine research group OCEARCH has been spotted in waters off the coast of North Carolina after months of cruising around Florida. Contender was ...

Imagine pulling up to a fishing spot. You hook a fish, a beautiful snook. As you reel it in, the water boils, a shark’s tail smacks the surface. The fish stops struggling. All that’s left of the snook ...

A 40-year-old male tourist was swimming and filming about 100m from shore in Hadera off the coast of Israel in April when he was suddenly surrounded by a shiver of dusky sharks, a species generally ...

So far this year, 12 shark attack bites have been reported in U.S. waters, with seven incidents occurring in Florida alone. Shark-bite incidents attract a lot of public attention because they occur ...

Sharks are older than a surprising amount of things, both on Earth and in the rest of the universe. While sharks have seen evolutionary changes in the 450 million years they have been around, their ...

It's Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, which means sharks are top of mind. Unlike Cape Cod or Florida, Rhode Island isn't known for its sharks. The are very few confirmed bites in the state's ...

Shark attack fatalities are extremely rare, with odds of 1 in 4,332,817 in a given year. In 2024, there were 47 shark bites worldwide, only four of which were fatal. Drowning, bee stings and even ...

A New England summer hot spot that was the site of the state’s first fatal shark attack five years ago is once again seeing signs of the apex predator as thousands flock to the beach to enjoy the ...