Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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, ...

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 ...

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Most people love the ocean, but few of us are eager to be a shark snack, thus shark repellent, but how well do these devices actually work?

A multi-million-dollar project run out of the University of Wollongong is working on fitting shark-deterrent technology into ...

Shark and human interactions have been increasing since the 1980s, and since sharks are considered sea predators and are not meant to be in the presence of humans, shark bite incidents have doubled in ...

Investing in a shark deterrent device can go a long way toward avoiding a deadly bite. That’s what shark researchers recently found after testing the electric-field device in great white ...

Personal shark deterrent? Got it. While personal electric deterrents can reduce the risk of shark bites, evidence for the efficacy of other products is limited. In contrast to personal electric ...

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 ...

Investing in a shark deterrent device can go a long way toward avoiding a deadly bite. That’s what shark researchers recently found after testing the electric-field device in great white ...