While several high-profile shark bites made headlines last year, the total number of shark attacks globally took a nosedive. The University of Florida’s Interna...
A small tooth fragment plucked from a 13-year-old boy’s leg after he was bitten by a shark off the coast of New York gave scientists the chance to test a new ta...
Throughout his more than 40-year career at the University of Florida, George Burgess gained an international reputation with the media and public as a reliable ...
With 88 reported unprovoked shark attacks and five fatalities worldwide, 2017 was “just an average year,” according to the University of Florida International S...
Shark feeding habits are helping scientists identify marks on human bones found in the ocean.
By analyzing shark scavenging behavior, the University of Flori...
After 2015’s record-busting 98 shark attacks, calmer waters prevailed in 2016. The University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File reported 81 unprovoke...
Shark researcher George Burgess displays an original July 1916 issue of the New York Tribune describing the New Jersey attacks, known as "The 12 Days of Terror...
It’s the kind of record no one wants to break: the most shark attacks in a single year. But 2015 did just that, with 98 unprovoked attacks worldwide, beating th...
The world experienced the lowest number of shark attacks since 2009, although fatalities in 2013 were above average, according to the Florida Museum’s Internati...
The migration of mature female tiger sharks during late summer and fall to the main Hawaiian Islands, presumably to give birth, could provide insight into attac...
