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A surfer who was attacked by a shark off the coast of Australia on Monday is presumed dead, police said Tuesday. Officials received reports of the attack around 12:10 p.m. local time on Monday ...

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The surfer taken by a shark on a remote Western Australian beach has now been named as 37-year-old Steven Jeffrey Payne, of Melbourne. His partner was on the beach on WA’s south coast on Monday ...

A woman has watched in horror as her partner was mauled by a shark in chest-deep water off a Western Australian beach. The man in his 30s was surfing off the coast of Wharton Beach in Cape Le ...

"We heard a scream and everyone got out of the water," Boissieux said. "There was only a surfboard left floating around about 30 metres from the shore. The water next to it was dark, with a shark's ...

The incident happened on the state’s south coast about midday on Monday, about 60km east of Esperance. Surf Lifesaving WA issued an alert saying a possible shark bite incident had been reported ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Witnesses have told police a surfer was attacked by a “massive” shark in chest-deep water at a remote beach east of Esperance on ...

The incident reportedly occurred at Wharton Beach in Western Australia just after noon on Monday, March 10 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

It remains a sad fact of this world that we will never know for certain what the long-lost megalodon truly looked like – but a new study gives us what may be the most accurate reconstruction yet. An ...