As the Fourth of July holiday approaches and families are planning beach time, some people on Long Island have lingering ...

When Walter Maxwell hooked into a giant tiger shark from a South Carolina pier in 1964, onlookers were sure he'd lose the ...

Yes, the shark population has increased. But the threat is minimal and, in truth, sharks have always been swimming around us, ...

Though there are many shark species in North Carolina, bites are rare, Cahoon said, noting that most shark bites occur in ...

In Netflix's Shark Whisperer, Ocean Ramsey does what almost nobody else will ever try. She drops into deep water and swims ...

A woman is recovering after officials say she was likely bitten and injured by a young sand tiger shark during a summertime ...

Sharks don’t exactly have the best reputation. Decades of fear-driven stories and films have made sure of that. But if you ...

To researchers, the animals are hardly predatory villains; most are juveniles figuring out how to hunt. Encounters such as ...

You may think that since sharks have noses, they use them for breathing. However, unlike mammals, they use them only to smell ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...