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An 8ft 10in, 456-pound great white shark is prowling just 42 miles away from Myrtle Beach — proving vital to mapping Atlantic migration patterns. Juvenile female great white Brookes, first tagged by ...

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles. Scientists with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre captured footage of a ...

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Shark attacks worldwide returned to near-average levels in 2025, but fatalities climbed higher than usual, newly released figures show. The Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark ...

Antarctica has always been the ultimate gatekeeper. Its waters are famously shark-free, or so the general rule of thumb went for decades. But that rule was just rewritten by a slow-moving, ...

Researchers filmed a 10-to-13-foot sleeper shark off the South Shetland Islands, in what may be the first recording of the species that far south. By Jenny Gross More than 1,600 feet below the ocean’s ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Shark attacks returned to near-average levels in 2025 after a dip the previous year, according to the latest ...