Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles.

Florida tops the U.S. in shark bites in 2025, including some in the Southwest part of the state, but Australia had the most deadly attacks.

Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are often unfairly the stuff of marine nightmares. But these infamously fearsome creatures are sometimes eaten by an animal even higher on the food ...

The animal lovers at Maymo watch dogs paw at a curious octopus while encountering a shark underwater, blending underwater suspense with hilarious furball antics.

A widely publicized killer whale attack once seemed to explain why white sharks disappeared from a key aggregation site. Long-term tracking now suggests the reality is more nuanced. Killer whales (Orc ...

Shark attacks in 2025 were back to a normal level after a down year in 2024. California continues to overindex in unprovoked ...

For the second year in a row, New Jersey had no shark bites off its coast. Swimmers elsewhere were not so lucky.

Despite a recent string of shark attacks across the California coast, including the tragic killing of a 55-year-old swimmer, the violent incidents dropped in the United States in 2025 compared to the ...

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Shark attacks are most likely to happen around when the deadly predators are giving birth, according to new research. Incidents are so frequent in seas around Hawaii in October that it has been dubbed ...

A 12-year-old Australian boy who had been clinging to life after a shark attack last week died from severe injuries suffered when a suspected bull shark took a single bite while he was swimming in the ...