Unprovoked attacks by sharks declined sharply in 2024, according to new figures from an international database compiled by ...

Last year, there were only 47 unprovoked shark attacks, down from the annual average of 70 over the last decade. Florida has ...

Blacktip reef sharks frequent shallow lagoons in French Polynesia. Our guide, Cadousteau Nohoarii, nosed his boat into the shallows outside the blue lagoon. “Welcome to my office,” he ...

Aquarium of Guam in Tumon welcomed the arrival of its newest stars — baby blacktip reef sharks born on Christmas Eve — and the public is invited to help name these baby sharks. Having baby ...

Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, noted that the lower numbers of shark encounters in 2024 ...

Many of the Florida bites were likely from blacktip sharks, which occupy breeding grounds that stretch along the northeast Florida coastline, the Florida Museum of Natural History noted in the ...

Many of the Florida bites were likely from blacktip sharks, pictured here.

Of these, eight occurred in Volusia County, which bears the unofficial title of shark bite capital of the world. Many of these bites were likely from blacktip sharks, whose breeding grounds ...

The shark attack happened Feb ... The Sun news outlet reports the 55-year-old woman was attacked around 10:30 a.m. and a photo shows the injuries were to one of her legs. It happened near the ...