Some great white sharks have journeyed past Cape Cod and are now lurking in the water off the coast of northern New England. There have been two confirmed great white shark sightings off Maine this ...

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Great white sharks are beginning to swim north of Cape Cod and the Islands. There were 16 confirmed great white sightings in the water off Massachusetts this week, with two coming off the South Shore ...

If you want to know whether you’ll need a bigger boat, this new shark map might be for you. The largest international ocean conservation and advocacy organization, Oceana, has created a new ...

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 ...

The ocean can be a dangerous place, even for a shark. Despite sitting at the top of the food chain, these predators are now reeling from destructive human activities like overfishing, pollution and ...

Don't let her sweet name fool you! LeeBeth is a 14.1-foot, 2,600-pound female great white shark. On Dec. 8, a satellite tag was placed on her by Capt. Chip Michalove of Outcast Sport Fishing near ...

A new set of global criteria will help identify important areas for sharks, rays, and chimaeras to secure the protection they desperately need in the face of extinction. To date, shark, ray, and ...

You can probably guess which shark species is most popular. Steven Spielberg's seminal blockbuster Jaws (1975) swam into theaters the summer of 1975. Fifty years later, great whites like the movie's ...

A team of scientists has monitored the movement of 47 silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) tagged with satellite trackers in the Galápagos Marine Reserve off Ecuador. They observed that the sharks ...

THE global hotspots for terrifying shark attacks have been revealed with 65 unprovoked bites reported in 2025. Nine of those were fatal, above the annual average of six. Attacks last year included one ...

Some 40 species of shark are thought to inhabit the waters surrounding the UK. Many only visit in the warmer months, though according to the Shark Trust charity there are 21 permanent resident species ...