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9-Year-Old Survives Shark Attack in Florida

Leah Lendel's hand had to be reconstructed following bite off Florida

(Newser) - A 9-year-old girl has survived a terrifying shark encounter off Florida and remarkably retains the use of her right hand despite that it was "mostly torn off," per Gulf Coast News . Leah Lendel was snorkeling off Boca Grande, about 4 feet from her mother, on Wednesday when she...

Trump Pardons Divers Who Freed 19 Sharks

Men believed they had stumbled upon an illegal fishing line

(Newser) - Two South Florida shark divers convicted of theft for freeing 19 sharks and a giant grouper from a fisherman's longline several miles from shore have been pardoned by President Trump, the AP reports. Pardons for Tanner Mansell and John Moore Jr. were signed Wednesday. They had been convicted in...

Man Finishes Epic Swim Around Martha's Vineyard

Lewis Pugh challenged icy waters to spotlight shark conservation efforts

(Newser) - Braving icy waters and relentless waves, endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh has become the first swimmer to circle Martha's Vineyard, launching a bold campaign to change the way we see sharks ahead of Jaws' 50th anniversary. The 55-year-old British-South African swimmer completed a 62-mile swim around the island off...

Swimmer Circles Martha's Vineyard, in the Name of Sharks

Endurance athlete Lewis Pugh takes to icy waters off Massachusetts to highlight conservation efforts

(Newser) - Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh is taking on a new challenge: a 62-mile swim around Martha's Vineyard, the island made famous as the filming site for the 1975 film Jaws. The British-South African athlete, who has swum in some of the world's toughest conditions—including every ocean, near...

Aussies Rescue Stranded Great White Shark

'We definitely got it into some deeper water, so hopefully it's swimming still'

(Newser) - Nash Core admits he felt some fear when he and his 11-year-old son waded into the ocean off the Australian coast to help rescue a 10-foot great white shark stranded in shallow water. Three local men managed to return the distressed animal from a sand bank into deeper water after...

Man Swimming With Sharks Killed in Rare Attack in Israel

Remains found of missing man along Israeli shore after beachgoers ignored safety warnings

(Newser) - Israeli police have found the remains of a swimmer who vanished in the Mediterranean Sea after heading out into the water near a gathering of sharks. The incident occurred on Monday at a beach in Hadera, and Israeli authorities closed that beach and others nearby following the apparent attack,...

Behold, the 'Sharktopus'
Shark's Orange
'Hat' Leaves
Researchers
Stunned
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Mar 29, 2025 4:15 PM CDT

Shark's Orange 'Hat' Leaves Researchers Stunned

It was actually an octopus, making this a 'sharktopus' sighting

(Newser) - "One of the best things about being a marine scientist is that you never know what you might see next in the sea," writes Rochelle Constantine of the University of Auckland, who did not expect to come across an octopus riding a shark. That's exactly what researchers...

It's the First-Known Sound Made by a Shark
Sharks Might Not Be
Silent Killers After All
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Mar 26, 2025 10:25 AM CDT

Sharks Might Not Be Silent Killers After All

Researchers record first-known sound made by a shark—a mysterious clicking of teeth

(Newser) - Sharks are thought of as silent killers, associated with no other sound but the "duunnn dunn, duuuunnnn dunn" of the Jaws theme song . But humans might have been long ignorant of the sound sharks truly make, which new research suggests is, in the case of the rig shark, similar...

Surfer on Holiday Killed by Shark
Surfer on Holiday
Killed by Shark
Mar 12, 2025 3:00 AM CDT

Surfer on Holiday Killed by Shark

37-year-old's body has not been recovered in Australia

(Newser) - A surfer was killed by a shark being described as "massive" Monday in Western Australia. Steven Payne, 37, of Melbourne was in the area with his partner and dog as part of a six-month traveling holiday, the Canberra Times reports. He was surfing at the remote Wharton Beach when...

We Underestimated the Megalodon
We Underestimated
the Megalodon
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Mar 11, 2025 1:16 PM CDT

We Underestimated the Megalodon

Extinct shark could've been as long as 2 school buses, as heavy as a blue whale

(Newser) - It hasn't been easy forming a picture of the megalodon , a massive shark that dominated the oceans millions of years ago, because fossil finds include only teeth and vertebrae . But researchers in 28 countries now believe they have a good idea of what the shark looked like after comparing...

Tourist Tries to Get Shark in Photo, Loses Both Hands

Canadian woman, 55, was in Turks and Caicos

(Newser) - A woman vacationing in the Turks and Caicos Islands lost both of her hands to a shark while trying to photograph it, reports the Telegraph . The woman, identified only as a 55-year-old from Canada, "attempted to engage with the animal" to take pictures while in shallow water on the...

Baby Shark Mysteriously Born in Tank With No Males

'Life... uh... finds a way:' Shreveport Aquarium scratching its collective head over surprise pup

(Newser) - When a mommy shark and a daddy shark love each other very much, sometimes they decide to have a baby shark . But sometimes when a lady shark is just chillin' with her girlfriend shark, and no dude sharks in sight, the lady shark mysteriously becomes a mommy shark. As KSLA...

Surfer Vanishes, Believed Killed by Shark

Witness saw a shark attack the 28-year-old man off South Australia on Thursday

(Newser) - A surfer missing in Australia is believed to have died in a shark attack, authorities said Friday, as they searched the waters where the man disappeared, per the AP . The 28-year-old was in the sea at a popular surf beach in South Australia where another man was killed by a...

Florida Surfer Survives 2 Shark Attacks at Same Beach

Incidents were 11 years apart

(Newser) - Cole Taschman was 16 the first time a shark attacked him at Bathtub Beach in front of his parents' house in Stuart, Florida. He survived the 2013 incident—as well as a second shark attack, which took place at the same beach 11 years later. While surfing last Friday, Taschman,...

Shark That Can Live 400 Years Reveals Its Secret
Shark That Can Live
400 Years Reveals Its Secret
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Sep 24, 2024 1:58 PM CDT

Shark That Can Live 400 Years Reveals Its Secret

Greenland shark genome shows duplicated genes involved in DNA repair

(Newser) - The Greenland shark is the world's longest-living vertebrate, or animal with a backbone, capable of living a mind-bending 400 years. Now, with the mapping of the shark's genome, the biggest of any shark sequenced to date, researchers say they've unlocked potential secrets to the animal's longevity...

Scientists Were Tracking a Shark. Then the Data Got Weird
Scientists Were Tracking
a Shark. Then It Got Eaten
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Sep 8, 2024 3:30 PM CDT

Scientists Were Tracking a Shark. Then It Got Eaten

They say they have first evidence of predator eating a porbeagle shark

(Newser) - Researchers captured and tagged a pregnant porbeagle shark near Cape Cod in October 2020. The 7-foot shark had two trackers attached: one was a geolocator; the other was a pop-off satellite archival tag (PSAT) that relayed info about water temperature and depth. As the scientists write in a paper published...

Great White Severs Surfer's Right Leg

Kai McKenzie's limb washed ashore in Australia and was put on ice

(Newser) - A 23-year-old Australian surfer had his right leg severed in a shark attack on Tuesday, with the leg later washing up on shore. The BBC reports Kai McKenzie, 23, was surfing near Port Macquarie in New South Wales when what was thought to be a 10-foot-long great white attacked. A...

As It Turns Out, Cocaine Sharks Are Real
Brazil Sharks Test
Positive for Cocaine
NEW STUDY
Jul 23, 2024 12:00 PM CDT

Brazil Sharks Test Positive for Cocaine

Presence of the drug in wild sharks is verified for the first time

(Newser) - Cocaine sharks really do exist, researchers have confirmed, a year after scientists probed the possibility in the "Shark Week" documentary Cocaine Sharks and filmmakers terrified audiences with a horror film of almost the same name . A group of Brazilian sharpnose sharks taken from the ocean near Rio de Janeiro...

Teen in Lifeguard Training Has Run-In With a Shark

Boy, 14, bitten by shark while doing water entries in Florida's Volusia County

(Newser) - A shark bit a Florida teen on the leg during a lifeguard training camp on Monday morning, officials said. The attack occurred near the Ponce Inlet lifeguard tower shortly before noon, Volusia County Beach Safety officials said, per the AP . The 14-year-old boy had been practicing water entries when he...

Shark Bites 4 People Off Texas Beach

The Fourth was not a good day to be at the beach in South Padre Island

(Newser) - A single shark is believed to have left four people injured off the coast of Texas in a rare Fourth of July event. Police in South Padre Island, a beach town on the barrier island of the same name just north of the US-Mexico border, were called about "a...

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