1,400-pound great white shark makes New Year's appearance off Florida
Breton, a more than 13-foot-long great white shark, previously went viral for seemingly traveling along a path that resembles the outline of a shark.
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Breton, a more than 13-foot-long great white shark, previously went viral for seemingly traveling along a path that resembles the outline of a shark.
One man said it was a great white shark. Another said he "saw him in the wave and the shark had his body in his mouth -- it was pretty gruesome."
Cape Cod is experiencing a "white shark abundance," according to a new report from the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, UMass Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. It's the first time that's happened in the North Atlantic. The study also says more than 300 different types of sharks have been tracked across the area. Dr. Greg Skomal, senior fisheries biologist at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, joins "CBS News Mornings" to discuss the findings.
"We're seeing an ocean that's teeming with life like we haven't seen since the '40s or '50s," Chris Fischer, founder of a research organization that tracks great white sharks, told CBS News.
"They're back!" said researchers at The Cape Lab, who confirmed the white shark sighting off the coast of Massachusetts over the weekend.
As summer approaches, OCEARCH is again tracking sharks in the ocean. Bill Whitaker watched as the giant predators were tagged and equipped with transmitters in 2019.
Simon Nellist was killed when a great white shark attacked him in the waters near Sydney in February 2022.
The great white shark is one of the most infamous ocean-dwellers on the planet and now, researchers are on the verge of discovering where they mate in the Atlantic. Carter Evans joined some of the scientists 12 miles off the coast of North Carolina, as they zeroed in on one of the species' remaining mysteries.
Chinese social media personality filmed herself buying, preparing and eating the animal, which is protected in China.
A 12-year-old boy made the catch of the day about a mile off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Tuesday. He caught a great white shark during a fishing trip with his mom. It took about 45 minutes to reel in the estimated 700-pound shark, which is a protected species, and was immediately released back into the ocean.
In aerial footage, a pod of killer whales is seen chasing sharks during an hour-long pursuit off Mossel Bay.
"Two in one area is almost unheard of," one expert on South Africa's great white shark population tells CBS News.
The influencer, popularly known by her online pseudonym Tizi, faces up to ten years in prison if convicted. China lists great whites as protectedd.
Experts are hoping to recover the carcass, which washed back out to sea, and perform a necropsy.
Police say a dead great white shark washed ashore on a beach near the Hamptons in New York on Wednesday. The shark was about eight feet long. It comes a day after a shark was seen leaping out of the water near Rockaway Beach in Queens.
A Great White made for a startling find on a Suffolk County beach. The shark had washed up on the sand at Dune Road in Quogue. CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff has details.
Scientists believe the 1975 movie "Jaws" caused a generation of people to develop galeophobia.
Swimmers, surfers and businesses in Southern California have adapted to life with juvenile great white sharks. Now, researchers who have studied sharks for years are trying to understand their impact on the local economy. Carter Evans has more.
Swimmers, surfers and businesses in Southern California have adapted to life with juvenile great white sharks.
Steve Bruemmer, 62, was released from Natividad Medical Center in Salinas three weeks after a shark bit him as he swam off the central California coast.
Bodyboarder Tomas Butterfield, 42, was bitten in the head, chest and shoulder in the attack at Morro Bay, some 200 miles north of L.A., official reports say. It was a great white shark that killed him on Christmas Eve, the reports conclude.
Juvenile great white sharks swim in peace alongside surfers and families. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans tags along with researchers who are working to figure out why.
The shark is believed to be 10 feet long. It was the first fatal shark attack in Australia's largest city since 1963.