A 14-year-old boy from Missouri was standing in knee-deep water when his foot was bitten by a shark Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Florida, a few miles from where a fellow teenager was also attacked by a ...

When it comes to fending off sharks, it turns out you might not "need a bigger boat," as recommended in Jaws—but just a bottle of cuttlefish ink. This is the revelation of researchers from University ...

Shark attacks on humans are still very rare — only about 70 per year. They are still less common than lightning strikes (270 cases per year) or drowning deaths (320,000 deaths per year). And sharks ...

I’d always thought “shark repellant” was just sort of an ACMEesque joke product, but apparently there have been a variety of products available for just such a purpose as far back as World War II. The ...

Long before she became a culinary powerhouse, Julia Child was fighting sharks -- sort of. While Child was not one of the driving forces behind the U.S. Navy's quest to develop a shark repellent during ...

Julia Child is internationally renowned for her brilliant recipes, over-the-top personality, and oh-so-famous voice. While she refused to use the word "gourmet" when it came to her culinary creations, ...