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 ...

Science keeps trying but has yet to find a reliable way to keep sharks at bay. Even the late Julia Child, before she went with all that French cuisine, stirred up an anti-shark recipe in her bathtub, ...

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 ...

Some people seek out ways to spend time with sharks and plan vacations to places like Coco Island, Costa Rica, which is known ...

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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A new shark-repellent device demonstrated in a viral YouTube video is drawing attention for what appears to be its ability to drive away dozens of sharks with a single blast.

BIMINI, Bahamas -- For decades, people have been searching for a chemical substance that repels sharks. Now an American inventor believes he has grasped it. Eric Stroud, a research chemist who heads ...

The free-diving fisherman did not have a shark-repellent bracelet on at the time of the attack, according to authorities Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...

Sometimes some of the coolest stories get lost in history. The CIA recently noted one of them – famous French food chef and author Julia Child’s critical involvement in developing a shark repellent ...

BIMINI, Bahamas -- For years, people have been searching for a chemical substance that repels sharks. During World War II, the U.S. Navy created "Shark Chaser," a mixture of copper acetate and black ...