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 ...

Shark stories travel faster than sharks. What matters for trip planning is the boring, measurable stuff: where confirmed incidents cluster, which water activities show up most often, and how to reduce ...

Shark season off the coast of Massachusetts is in full swing. The Chatham-based Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app has reported great whites coming as close as 50 feet from the ...

Beware of these chomping grounds. Want to know if you’re in danger from the current shark attack scourge? Fear not: The Florida Museum in Gainesville has rolled out a handy interactive shark map that ...

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View post: Here’s When It’s Finally Going To Feel Like Spring For Most of the U.S. For many of us, summer means that it’s time to head to the beach. For others ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's that time of year at the beaches of Massachusetts when the public is urged to be "shark smart." And there have been numerous sightings of great white sharks over the weekend, mostly off Cape Cod, ...

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 ...