All news on the topic: Sharks

One passerby claims that they saw more than 100 of the creatures along a stretch of beach in Merseyside, while another blames the issue on a particular type of net fishing

Scott Haraguchi was out on his kayak, fishing over a mile offshore from Kualoa in Windward Oahu, Hawaii when he captured himself being attacked by the tiger shark

A man who was reported missing is believed to have died in a shark attack in South Australia after his surfboard was recovered with "one bite in the middle" at Walkers Rock Beach

Schoolgirl Cydney Root, 12, found a tooth which once belonged to a fearsome megaladon, the largest shark to ever live in the world's oceans which could fit two humans in its mouth

Ella Reed, 13, was enjoying a day at Fort Pierce Beach in Florida with her family when she was attacked by what she thinks was a bull shark while sitting in the shallow waters - leaving her needing 19 stitches

Billy Mole and and partner Meg O'Beirne went in the sea for a dip... but it wasn't until afterward that they clocked the menacing fin poking out of the waves in Branscombe, Devon

Fisherman Barry Trevett discovered the smalltooth sand tiger shark off the coast of Lyme Regis, Dorset, and kept it in his refrigerated van for experts to examine it

Archie Blake had his leg torn into by a shark while snorkelling with his family on a "trip of a lifetime" in Australia that they had been waiting to take for four years

A boy who was swimming off Kurrajong Campground in Western Australia was attacked by a shark and then transported to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries

Experts say Simon Nellist's death was a "provoked incident" because sharks had been drawn to the area where he was swimming off the coast of Little Bay near Sydney

Ibrahim Shafeeg, 37, from the Maldives, recorded his friend Carmen Canovas Cervello, 30, who works as a nurse, when she was bitten by a 200lb nurse shark while diving off the Vaavu Atoll

Mike Morita, 58, a veteran surfer of 40 years, was enjoying a spot of early morning surfing at around 7am on Sunday when an enormous 8ft tiger shark attacked him and crunched down on his leg, tearing off his foot

Leinster v Leicester: Tigers boss grateful to support of Leinster counterpart during difficult early days at Welford Road - and looking forward to pitting his wits against him tonight

Dave Perkins was fishing with two customers off the Florida coast when they decided to reel in a blacktip shark that had been chasing away their fish

Great white shark Breton weighs 1,437lb and is 13 ft and 3 inches long - he is seen along with more than a dozen other sharks roaming near the open-sea beaches of the Outer Banks, North Carolina

Dillon Armijo, from Colorado, US, was on a family holiday in Cancun, Mexico when he went into the sea but just five minutes later he had to be dragged out after being attacked by a shark

Lewis Hamilton always enjoys riding the waves when he heads Down Under for the Australian Grand Prix, but this time came a little too close to comfort to an unwelcome meeting with a shark

A photo of what was originally thought to be a goblin shark lying on several rocks was originally published by three marine biologists, but others have questioned its authenticity

The enormous predator, 'Scot', was pinged off Key West in Florida and has sparked concern as thousands of college students head to the state's beaches for their annual spring break holiday

A basking shark spotted swimming around St Ives harbour in Cornwall was 'huge' according to a tourist. Olga Bates said seals were hiding from it and it was 'amazing to see'

Roman Fedortsov, who works on a trawler in Murmansk in the northwest part of Russia, spends his time uncovering creatures from the deep and sharing his bizarre catch with his followers on Instagram

Zack Winegardner was airlifted to Jackson South Medical Centre in Miami after a 6ft-long bull shark 'appeared out of nowhere' and sunk its razor-sharp teeth into his right arm

TV historian Dan Snow has appealed to the public after trophy hunters stole the head of a shark from a beach in Hampshire. Scientists hoped to examine the brain of the 'once in a lifetime' find

A hairdresser has spoken of how she tried to save a stranded rare shark which washed up on a UK beach before it was found dead the next day

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Brett Connellan, 29, was attacked by a bull shark while surfing off Bombo Beach in Australia, with the predator biting off a large chunk of his thigh before friends saved his life