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British tourist 'stable' after shark attack on tropical island

British tourist 'aware and can communicate' after shark attack

World April 29, 2024 By Tom Sanders

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British tourist loses arm and leg in shock shark attack on paradise island

World April 27, 2024 By Jasper King

Scientists discover prehistoric shark with 'grinding' teeth that crushed turtle shells

Tech April 29, 2024 By Hiyah Zaidi

*EMBARGOED UNTIL 05.15 BST, FRI APRIL 19 (00.15 ET)* Juvenile great white shark viewed from a boat. Baby sharks prefer swimming in shallow water, reveals new research. Just like young humans, junior great whites prefer to stay close to the shore. Now, marine scientists have shown for the first time that juvenile great white sharks select warm and shallow waters to gather within a few hundred yards of the coast. They say their findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, are important for conservation of the apex marine predators - especially as ocean temperatures increase due to climate change ? and for protecting the public from potentially lethal attacks.

Baby sharks doo doo doo doo doo like to be near the beach

Tech April 19, 2024 By Nilima Marshall

Great white shark filmed swimming up to a boat near a whale carcass.

Hungry great white shark circles boaters before attacking a whale carcass

US March 25, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen

The bleak reality behind ITV's Jaws-inspired reality TV show

TV February 27, 2024 By Pierra Willix

Florida man picks up shark with his bare hands and walks it like a dog

US February 24, 2024 By Brooke Davies

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Holiday hotspots where fatal shark attacks have doubled in a year

Tech February 6, 2024 By Stephen Beech

Emergency services rescue woman attacked by shark in Sydney Harbour

Woman fighting for her life after being mauled by a shark

UK January 29, 2024 By Lucy Skoulding

EMBARGOED UNTIL 28 JANUARY 2PM GMT (9AM ET) Newborn great white, filmed off the California coast near Santa Barbara. Release date ??? January 29, 2024. See SWNS story SWSCshark. This is the first ever photo of a newborn great white shark in the wild. Scientists have previously seen older shark pups or found baby great whites dead inside their deceased pregnant mothers but never before has a great white shark been seen so soon after birth. According to the team, the baby shark may have been just hours old. This rare sighting could offer new insights into where great whites give birth, which has long been a mystery in shark science. Wildlife filmmaker Carols Gauna and UC Riverside PhD student Phillip Sternes were scanning the waters for sharks on 9 July 2023 in Santa Barbara, California, when something unusual appeared on their drone camera???s viewfinder. It was a great white shark pup ??? but unlike any they had ever seen before. Usually, great whites, the largest predatory sharks in the world, are grey on top and white on the bottom. But this shark, which measured around five feet, was pure white.

Ghostly baby shark solves one of the ocean's greatest mysteries

Tech January 30, 2024 By Katherine Fidler

Megalodon and shark, illustration

Megalodon super shark looked very different to how we've always imagined

Tech January 22, 2024 By Isobel Williams

Bahamas, Nassau, Atlantis Resort, Predator Lagoon, underwater tunnel with Shark. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Boy, 10, bitten while on 'shark tank' expedition at resort

US January 17, 2024 By Jessica Kwong

People are obsessed with photo of a shark that 'looks like Satan'

World January 3, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

IMAGE HAS BEEN LIGHTENED - Jason Carter, AKA Jay Carter, 39, of Ha?ik?, Hawaii, in photos from his Facebook page. A 39-year-old man was killed by a shark in Maui, Hawaii as he surfed in Paia Bay. Officials said that they arrived to the scene around 11.19am on Saturday where Ocean Safety Officers had already been transporting the injured victim on a jet ski to shore. 'Once onshore, life-saving measures were performed by first responder personnel until medic personnel arrived to transport the male to the Maui Memorial Medical Center for further treatment,' the Maui Police Department said in a statement. The male then succumbed to his injuries at the hospital around 5.30 p.m. on Saturday.

Surfer killed in shark encounter described as 'legend' by friends

World January 1, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva

Shark warning mistakenly sent to Scotland after mix-up with New Zealand town

UK December 7, 2023 By Alan Shields

Police officers walk on the beach after what police described as a fatal shark attack against a tourist at Sandals Royal Bahamian resort, in Nassau, Bahamas December 4, 2023. REUTERS/Dante Carrer

New bride mauled to death by shark one day after wedding in The Bahamas

World December 5, 2023 By Ben Ashton

Aussie woman fighting for life after shark bites her on head 9 NEWS

Woman left with 'extreme injuries' after shark bites her on the head during dive

World November 10, 2023 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

British diver headbutted by 'most dangerous' shark in heart-stopping clip

World November 2, 2023 By Sarah Hooper

Great white shark's remains found ashore after being devoured by mystery seabeast

Weird October 19, 2023 By Tom Sanders

Beachgoers rescue massive shark after it beaches itself on Florida shore

Moment beachgoers drag thrashing shark by its tail back into the ocean

US September 18, 2023 By Zachary Folk