A surfer has been hospitalized after being injured in a shark attack off the coast of Mendocino County on Wednesday, according to California State Parks. A 39-year-old man was surfing near Big River ...

In a 1981 magazine essay, the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould let readers in one of his field’s counter-intuitive truths. Aquatic animals, including lungfish and coelacanths, are more closely ...

Experts say the presence of these sharks is not a cause for concern for beachgoers. Florida has never recorded a bite from a great white shark, according to the International Shark Attack File. An ...

Unprovoked shark bites worldwide increased in 2025, and fatalities rose above the recent decade average, according to the International Shark Attack File (ISAF). The Florida Museum of Natural ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Shark attacks returned to near-average levels in 2025 after a dip the previous year, according to the latest ...

Sharks prowl nearly every marine ecosystem on Earth—except one. For decades, scientists assumed the waters around Antarctica were simply too cold to sustain these predators, but a surprise sighting is ...

A sleeper shark appeared on camera for the first time at more than 1,500 feet beneath the Antarctic Ocean’s surface, exceeding depths experts thought sharks could exist in that part of the world.

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. Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid ...

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A 13-year-old boy died on Thursday after he was mauled by a shark at a popular beach on Brazil's eastern coast, the state government said in a statement. The attack happened off the coast of Chifre ...