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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warming Atlantic waters are delaying shark migrations by up to 29 days. Sandbar sharks show the longest delays.

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

American national pride has been on a steady slowdown since 2001, when Gallup first started recording data, and analysts said ...

"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 ...