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A Lake Mary teen surfing off New Smyrna Beach was bitten by a shark.
Witnesses say a 54-year-old surfer made it to shore on his own after a shark attack off Maui.
Massachusetts officials are using a high-tech tag to track the movements of a great white shark near Cape Cod — the first time the fearsome fish has ever been tagged in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hollywood’s favorite filmmaker, Judd Apatow, returns with his third film, Adam Sandler stars as a comedian suffering from what he believes to be a fatal disease — until it goes into remission. Seth Rogen co-stars as a not-quite-as-funny comic who becomes both his assistant and best pal. The premise sounds a bit maudlin, but Apatow is one of the few directors who really knows how to balance laughs with heart. The movie also features the comic talents of Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman, Sarah Silverman and Norm McDonald. (Opens July 31)
The body of a shark was left lying in the middle of a downtown Miami street after two men tried to sell it to several fish markets. The men apparently carried the five or six-foot-long fish around on the city's Metromover downtown train, prompting calls to police.
Nearly a dozen shark-attack victims — many of them badly scarred or missing limbs — pressed Congress on Wednesday to protect a sea creature they'd rather not run into again.
A 20-foot-long basking shark that washed ashore on a beach on New York's Long Island appears to have died from some kind of illness.
When the shark clamped its jaws on his forearm and wouldn’t let go, Luis Hernandez knew it was going to take a miracle for him to escape with his life.
Journalists have a lot to be nervous about lately: layoffs, furloughs, newspaper closures. But reporters at an Australian paper may have received the scariest threat of the day when a live shark was left on their doorstep. Police said the two-foot creature was spotted early Wednesday by a man who was leaving a McDonald's restaurant next door to the offices of The Standard in the small Victoria state town of Warrnambool.
Fishermen in the Philippines accidentally caught and later ate a megamouth shark, one of the rarest fishes in the world with only 40 others recorded to have been encountered, the World Wildlife Fund said Tuesday. The 1,100-pound, 13-foot megamouth died while struggling in the fishermen's net on March 30 off Burias island in the central Philippines. It was taken to nearby Donsol in Sorsogon province, where it was butchered and eaten, said Gregg Yan, spokesman for WWF-Philippines.
A Texas man on just his second saltwater fishing trip caught an 11-foot, 8-inch shortfin mako shark that weighed 1,149.5 pounds on scales at Port Fourchon, La. Bill Walters, a 56-year-old dog trainer from Granbury, Texas, caught the shark last week aboard the Orange Beach, Ala.-based Sea Spray while trolling near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
A recent string of shark attacks across Australia has rattled swimmers' nerves, but experts say fear not — it's (relatively) safe to go in the water.
The video, taken from inside a shark cage, is enough to freeze one’s blood. A great white shark gulps down a hunk of bait, then plows snout-first through the cage’s viewing aperture as the two men inside the cage try to avoid becoming its next course.
Scientists have confirmed the second case of a "virgin birth" in a shark. In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female Atlantic blacktip shark in the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center contained no genetic material from a male.
A dog is recovering after a Florida Keys carpenter dove in to save his pet from a shark. Greg LeNoir said he took his 14-pound rat terrier Jake for a daily swim at a marina Friday.
A surfer who put his fingers into the mouth of a shark to pry himself free during an attack believes the fish took no further interest in him because it didn't like the taste of his leg.
A large shark entangled itself in a surfer's leg rope in Australia and began towing him and his board out to sea, the surfer said Tuesday.
There's no telling what might turn up in Lake Michigan.
Scientists say they have begun tagging thousands of sharks off Mexico's Pacific Coast in the hopes of preventing new attacks on humans.
British police were searching for a shark stolen from an aquatics shop over the weekend in southern England.
A veterinarian in Australia plunged his arm up to his shoulder into the throat of a rare shark to save the animal after it swallowed a grappling hook.
Scientists have determined that a carcass found on a beach on Massachusetts' Nantucket island is a great white shark.
A 60-year-old man was charged Friday with disorderly conduct for allegedly lying about seeing two great white sharks off a Martha Vineyard's beach, authorities said.
To curb the illegal practice of removing shark fins at sea, U.S. officials announced Thursday that all sharks caught in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico must be brought ashore with their fins attached.
A scientist says experts will use sonar to track sharks off Mexico's Pacific Coast in the hopes of preventing new attacks on humans.
Woman Bitten By Shark Unsure If She'll Surf AgainPALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- A 27-year-old who was bitten by a shark while surfing in the Atlantic Ocean off Jupiter said Sunday she isn't sure she's willing to brave the waves again after her latest encounter.
Shark bite acts as emergency caesarean A shark stunned aquarium visitors in New Zealand when it bit a female shark's stomach, causing four baby sharks to spill out of its womb.
Man punched his way out of shark attack A man who was bitten by a shark south of Adelaide at the weekend says the shark released him when he punched it repeatedly in the mouth.
Ban shark fishing......?Can I ask that we at least attempt to play grownup and focus on why there should be a ban on fishing for sharks?
Ancient And Bizarre Fish DiscoveredAcademy scientists recently named a new species of chimaera, an ancient and bizarre group of fishes distantly related to sharks, from the coast of Southern California and Baja California, Mexico.
Fatal Shark Attack in North CarolinaBy Cindy Clayton Patrick Wilson The Virginian-Pilot © September 18, 2009 KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C.
Rehabilitated dolphin attacked, killed by sharkA rehabilitated Atlantic bottlenose dolphin released back into the wild on Tuesday was killed by a shark, according to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
Greenland shark meat may become new source of biofuelThe Greenland shark, one of the largest species of sharks, is a nuisance to fishermen and its meat is toxic to humans, but researchers now hope the flesh can be used to create a biofuel for Inuits.
5,000 Pound Shark Washes Ashore on Long IslandA 26-foot long dying shark washed ashore Tuesday on a Long Island beach, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation said. The shark died shortly after authorities arrived on the scene.
Shark interrupts reporter's first-ever fight with a tarpon - St. Petersburg TimesWhen a reporter went tarpon fishing for the first time, he never expected a shark to play such an important role.
Guide revels in record for 1,060-pound hammerhead shark while others revile him - St. Petersburg TimesBucky Dennis knew people would be mad when he reeled in a world-record hammerhead shark. Bucky's story traveled the Internet, where it encountered a catch-and-release audience that was not on his side.
Surfer bitten by shark on Florida's East Coast | WFTS-TVA surfer was bitten on the foot by a shark and may have lost two toes.
Ultra-Rare Shark Found, EatenIn just a short time, one of the rarest sharks in the world went from swimming in Philippine waters to simmering in coconut milk.
One of world's rarest sharks caught and eatenSo rare are megamouth shark sightings that each find is given a number -- this one, caught by fishermen from the coastal town of Donsol, was only the 41st ever seen or captured in the world.
Rare Megamouth Shark Caught, Eaten in PhilippinesFishermen in the Philippines accidentally caught and later ate a megamouth shark, one of the rarest fishes in the world with only 40 others recorded to have been encountered, the World Wildlife Fund said Tuesday...
Philippine fisherman catch and eat a megamouth sharkA MEGAMOUTH shark, one of the world's most elusive species, was caught, carved up and eaten by fishermen from a town in the Philippines, the environmental conservation group WWF said today.
Moment Of Tooth - Man fights sharkThese amazing pictures show an epic, two-hour battle between spear fisherman Craig Clasen and a 12-foot tiger shark in the Gulf of Mexico. The life-and-death struggle took place off New Orleans when Clasen, filmmaker Ryan McInnis and two friends were hunting tuna.
In Australia we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of shark attacks and sitings during the past few years. Sitings have increased from 1 in 2002 to almost 30 in the Sydney area this year.
DIY Shark Dives!Taking your customers this far down in an uninsured, homemade vessel may not seem like the smartest idea for a small business.
Shark rips South African Wild Coast lifeguard to pieces A lifeguard was torn apart by a giant shark off Port St Johns in Port Elizabeth at the weekend. Sikhanyiso Bangilizwe, 25, of Port St Johns, was bitten in half by what is suspected to be a tiger shark while he was catching waves off Second Beach with a friend on Saturday.
Man in ill-advised shark heist A man from New York state is facing charges, after he allegedly stole a shark from a pet shop. 30-year-old Elbert Starks is accused of fishing the $350 shark out of an aquarium in the pet store in Lynbrook, in Long Island, on December 12.
NY man accused of stealing shark from pet storeA New York man is accused of going fishing in a pet store aquarium where he caught a $350 shark and smuggled it out of the shop under his jacket.
Surf teacher fails to raise shark alarm, so as not to worry the kidsTEEN surfers frolic just feet from a man-eating Great White shark – after their teacher decided not to raise the alarm as "it would only have worried them".
How Hannah, 13, fought off a shark - National - smh.com.au"We were just surfing and she was probably five or 10 metres out in front of me," he said. "The next thing I know she screamed and disappeared under the water.
Swimmers flee as sharks come for an afternoon of fishing - National - smh.com.auSHARK alarms blared again yesterday afternoon as sightings of hammerhead sharks lurking close to swimmers prompted the evacuation of four of the city's most popular beaches.
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