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October 20, 2026 by Sharkophile Staff

Great whites circle 42-foot whale carcass, closing Perth beach

A great white shark swims through clear shallow water over sand near an empty shoreline in soft morning light

Great white sharks and a whale carcass prompted officials to close City Beach in Perth, Western Australia, after a humpback washed ashore.

Filed Under: Attacks, Ecology, News Tagged With: Great white, shark attack, sharks, Tiger shark

October 16, 2026 by Sharkophile Staff

Huntington Beach closes beach after 10- to 12-foot great white sighting

A great white shark swims in clear blue-green water above a sandy seafloor, with sunlight rays and a distant pier silhouette

Huntington Beach great white shark sighting closed waters near Lifeguard Tower 16 until 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, per fire officials.

Filed Under: Attacks, News Tagged With: Great white, hammerhead, shark attack, sharks

October 6, 2026 by Sharkophile Staff

Kayaker bitten twice by shark he hooked off Malibu

A shortfin mako shark swimming calmly in open blue water, with a distant empty California coastline in morning light

A kayaker fishing off Paradise Cove was bitten twice in a Malibu shark bite Sunday after hooking what lifeguards believe was a shortfin mako.

Filed Under: Attacks, Fishing, News Tagged With: fishing, mako shark, shark attack, shortfin mako

July 18, 2021 by Sharkophile Staff

Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old shark attack victim

Researchers from Oxford University and their colleagues in Japan have discovered the earliest evidence of a shark attack on humans, dating back 3,000 years.

Filed Under: Attacks, News, Odd Tagged With: shark attack

February 12, 2021 by Nathan Perisic

New study reveals large increase in great white shark numbers in Monterey Bay

A new study published Tuesday indicates a “dramatic increase” in the number of great white sharks swimming in Monterey Bay in recent years. The study finds that water temperatures have warmed in the region since 2014. Therefore, juvenile great white sharks -between 5 and 9 feet long- that traditionally concentrated in warm waters in Southern […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: great white shark, great white shark monterey, large shark, monterey bay, shark attack, shark sighting, Shark Week, sharks monterey bay, sharks teeth

November 13, 2018 by J. Scott Butherus

The 15 worst shark-themed movies of all time

It seems that every media outlet since the invention of Gutenberg’s press has done a charticle on the greatest shark films ever made. This, of course, is lazy journalism. Spoiler alert: They all end with Jaws. And while there is plenty to debate among the rest of the best, it leaves out an entire subgenre […]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Featured, Videos Tagged With: ghost shark, Jaws, megashark, shark attack, sharknado, The Meg

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