Before the fictional story of a killer shark terrorizing a sleepy beach town, there was the very real summer of 1916 at the ...

Luis Alvarez, the hero who saved a little girl from a shark attack in Boca Grande, now finds himself facing deportation. The ...

Emily Smith is a multi-platform journalist based in Launceston, Tasmania. She previously worked for the ABC in Esperance, West Australia, Darwin in the Northern Territory and for newspapers in ...

An inquest has heard the heartbreaking steps a surfer took to avoid a shark attack while in Australian waters.

The devastating circumstances of a great white shark attack on a surfer who was fatally mauled in front of his girlfriend at ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

A surfer was bitten on the arm by a shark at New Smyrna Beach and rushed to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

In a study published last month in the journal Ethology, researchers found that electric rays can scare away both tiger and white sharks by zapping them with powerful electric discharges. While ...

A 40-year-old surfer describes a shark attack at New Smyrna Beach in Florida as feeling "like a bear trap" and "electricity." ...

Bender said in the aftermath of the attack, he used his leash as a tourniquet, got on his belly, and used his surfboard like a boogie board to get back to shore safely before flagging down a young ...

An inquest has been told Steven Payne would not have known what was happening when a great white attacked from behind at ...

A man who was killed by a shark off WA's south coast earlier this year decided not to wear his shark deterrent device before ...