Many of the closed beaches were in Sydney, the site of three of the attacks. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia Dozens of beaches in eastern Australia were closed on Tuesday, after four ...

A series of three shark attacks in just over 24 hours near Sydney’s beaches has left two people in critical condition and sent shock waves through a region where such occurrences are rare, authorities ...

A 12-year-old boy is “fighting for his life,” a man in his 20s was left in critical condition and an 11-year-old boy escaped with only damage to his surfboard in a spate of shark attacks at beaches in ...

A shark mauled a boy swimming in Sydney Harbor on Sunday, leaving him in a critical condition with serious leg injuries, authorities said, marking at least the third shark attack globally in less than ...

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When a Monterey County woman died in a shark attack off Pacific Grove in late December, it was the 17th such fatality in 75 years off the coast of California. Most of those incidents involved white ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — A shark attacked and killed an American woman along a beach in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, officials said Friday. Today in History: February 9, Halley’s Comet ...

Authorities confirmed Thursday that Erica Fox, 55, a swimmer who was found dead last month after a swim in Monterey County, was killed by a shark. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner identified Fox ...

Erica Fox, 55, was killed in a shark attack off Lovers Point in Pacific Grove on Dec. 21, 2025, the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office confirmed on Jan. 8, 2026. Jean-Francois Vanreusel A Monterey County ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is well-known for ...

After a shark attack injured one of their own nearly three years ago, members of the Kelp Krawlers — who swim weekly around Lovers Point in Monterey County — began searching for something that might ...

A New Zealand-based fishing site has shared footage showing a great white shark rising from the depths to attack what remained of a smaller hooked shark. “Up close and personal with the King of the ...