“We assume they will be pretty traumatized,” Queensland Police’s Inspector Elaine Burns said of the other men who witnessed ...

A spearfisher has been mauled on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia’s second fatal shark attack in just over a week.

A surfer had minor injuries from being bitten by a shark Tuesday in the fourth attack off the coast of Australia's most populous state in three days. The series of attacks have prompted beach closures ...

Global unprovoked shark bites decreased in 2025, but fatal attacks increased from the previous year. The United States led the world in shark bites, with Florida having the most incidents of any state ...

One U.S. state accounted for 17% of all unprovoked bites globally last year Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App team in 2025. Her work has ...

A triathlete described as an “exceptional swimmer” is the missing 55-year-old woman believed to be the victim of a gruesome shark attack off the coast of Monterey, California, The Post has learned.

Unprovoked shark bites worldwide increased in 2025, and fatalities rose above the recent decade average, according to the International Shark Attack File (ISAF). The Florida Museum of Natural ...

Shark attacks turned deadlier in 2025 — with fatalities spiking 125% worldwide, a new study shows. There were 65 unprovoked bites and nine deaths from those encounters with the toothsome predator, ...

Despite a recent string of shark attacks across the California coast, including the tragic killing of a 55-year-old swimmer, the violent incidents dropped in the United States in 2025 compared to the ...