Australia has recorded a total of nine shark attacks in 2024, according to the International Shark Attack Database at the University of Florida. None of the previous incidents this year were fatal.

Shark attacks on humans are rare. Despite how movies and the media depict them, sharks are not hunters of people. Your chances of getting attacked by a shark are one in 11.5 million. And the ...

A popular tourist beach has reportedly been "plagued" by shark attacks in recent years, leading many who visit to feel that the waters are "under attack." Shark attacks are not that common. There ...

FILE - In this May, 22, 2019, file photo, a woman walks with her dogs at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, Mass., where a boogie boarder was bitten by a shark in 2018 and later died of his injuries.

A 9-year-old girl was seriously injured during a shark attack while swimming off Boca Grande Beach in Southwest Florida, according to family friends. Florida annually leads the nation in ...

Surfer survives shark attack unscathed at Montara State Beach 03:13. A surfer was not injured after a shark bit into his surfboard during an attack off a beach in San Mateo County over the weekend.

California State Parks officials reopened Montara State Beach Monday after a surfer’s board was bitten by a shark on May 31 around 2 p.m. The shark attack happened roughly 100 yards offshore ...

On June 3, Fire Captain Paul Brown confirmed to USA TODAY the adult male was a tourist and, according to investigators, the swimmer suffered a leg injury, possibly from a shark bite.

A surfer is reflecting after a terrifying shark attack near a major American city. Jens Heller was near Montara State Beach in California when he says a shark approached and took a bite out of his ...