A woman is recovering after officials say she was likely bitten and injured by a young sand tiger shark during a summertime ...

The popular 1975 movie Jaws stirred a fear of the ocean in people who didn’t even live near a beach. It was the blueprint for the bloodthirsty-killer-shark trope that has since proliferated the market ...

A 20-year-old woman was bitten by a shark, believed to be a juvenile sand tiger, while swimming at Jones Beach State Park in ...

New York State Parks officials say the woman was waist-deep in the surf at the Central Mall beachfront on Wednesday afternoon ...

Wild Wonders. close-up imagery of this smalltooth sand tiger shark. Posted: November 26, 2024 | Last updated: November 26, 2024. #sharks #Deepsea🦈Video by @noaaoceanexploration "were able to ...

"From 2016-19, people were catching them off Wollaston Beach in Quincy," Knotek said of sand tiger sharks, ... "And that is a real success story when it comes to the cleaning up of Boston Harbor.

A Long Island surfer fought off a shark that chomped down on his leg by “slapping” it and “paddling like hell” to shore, he said Thursday.. Shawn Donnelly, 41, of Mastic Beach — one of ...

The spike has coincided with the arrival of juvenile sand tiger sharks, which were confirmed in 2016 to have taken up residence in Great South Bay, between Long Island and Fire Island.

Sand tiger sharks have been overfished in Brazil for decades and, in 2018, were declared critically endangered in the region. (Fishing for the species was banned a few years before, though the ...

Sand sharks are larger than dogfish and and have sharper teeth, but Skomal said they don't pose a real risk to humans. "They haven't been implicated in any attacks," he said.