Newly released data shows that unprovoked shark bites increased worldwide in 2025, with the number of deaths exceeding the average recorded over the past decade.

Florida saw the most shark attacks out of any other state in 2025. The International Shark Attack File, run by the Florida Museum of Natural History, classifies the attacks as provoked or unprovoked ...

For the second year in a row, New Jersey had no shark bites off its coast. Swimmers elsewhere were not so lucky.

While global shark bites increased from 2024 to 2025, they still returned to near-average levels last year with 65 unprovoked shark bites.

Shark attacks worldwide increased in 2025 with 65 unprovoked bites recorded globally, while fatalities doubled above the ...

“It’s more scared of you than you are of it” is a refrain parents use to humanise spiders to their children. That’s a little harder to believe of sharks, given their mighty appearance and ...

Florida tops the U.S. in shark bites in 2025, including some in the Southwest part of the state, but Australia had the most deadly attacks.

Sharks get a bad rap in most media. On the very rare occasions when a shark attacks a human, even when there are warnings that sharks are in the area, the sharks are at fault and anti-shark campaigns ...