In 1916, a great white shark attacked five people near the Jersey Shore. Library of Congress In the summer of 1916, panic struck the Jersey Shore. A shark sunk its teeth into Charles Vansant, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four shark attacks have occurred since Sunday in Sydney, Australia, prompting the closure of several beaches in an extraordinary ...

The year 1916 was a fantastic summer on the Jersey Shore, if you liked the threats of war, polio, and a deadly attacker stalking the waterways. That was the summer that a series of strange, violent ...

For years, Hawaiʻi surfers and lifeguards have talked about “Sharktober,” a stretch of fall weeks when encounters with sharks ...

Shark attacks are most likely to happen around when the deadly predators are giving birth, according to new research. Incidents are so frequent in seas around Hawaii in October that it has been dubbed ...

Humans aren’t natural prey for sharks and it’s incredibly unlikely that sharks get a taste for humans after a bite ...

Since we saw ‘Jaws’, shark attacks have been a big fear for summer beachgoers, despite being incredibly rare. Out of the 8 billion people on earth last year, there were only 89 recorded shark bites, ...

It has to do with one particular species of shark—and it’s probably not the one you think.

Four shark attacks have occurred since Sunday in Sydney, Australia, prompting the closure of several beaches in an extraordinary situation reminiscent of what transpired on Mexico’s Pacific coast in ...