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 ...

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 ...

The nonprofit O’Seas Conservation Foundation tested its shark barrier technology, “The Exclusion Barrier,” this fall off of Chatham’s Monomoy Island – a hotbed for shark activity along the Cape. It ...

SYDNEY — The silhouette of a surfer paddling on their board looks remarkably like a seal from below, at least to a hungry Great White shark. But what if we could make that silhouette disappear? In a ...

Dr. Laura Ryan and Professor Nathan Hart, researchers from Macquarie University in New South Wales, Australia, spent the last several years in Mossel Bay, South Africa, figuring out the best way to ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Excited by the scent of blood, a dozen sharks dart about in a frenzy as a researcher dips a pole in the sea and squirts out a clear, yellowish substance. Within seconds, the ...

From apps to eyes, to being magnified and electrified, here's a list of the current technology available for those wishing to avoid a close encounter with a man in the grey suit. All are available for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Could shark barriers be coming to Cape Cod beaches in the future? It could be a safety option for local communities down the road after researchers recently found that their shark barrier successfully ...