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Every year, the fins of as many as 73 million sharks are sliced from the backs of the majestic sea predators.
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Every year, the fins of as many as 73 million sharks are sliced from the backs of the majestic sea predators.
The influencer, popularly known by her online pseudonym Tizi, faces up to ten years in prison if convicted. China lists great whites as protectedd.
The trial for WNBA star Brittney Griner began Friday, the 135th day of her detainment in Moscow. A second person this week has been attacked by a bison at Yellowstone National Park - a 71 year old Pennsylvania woman who sustained non-life-threatening injuries. And conservationists say at least 11 sharks – some of them great whites – have been spotted in the Cape Cod area in the last week.
The Buffalo supermarket where 10 Black people were killed two months ago is formally reopening Friday. With COVID cases and hospitalizations rising, the Los Angeles County health director is warning that an indoor mask mandate could be brought back in two weeks. And, for the fifth time in two weeks, a shark has bitten someone on a Long Island, New York beach. All the injuries have been non-life threatening.
Get the facts about shark attacks before canceling a trip or staying out of the water.
Researchers are learning that our fear of sharks is linked more to popular culture than the actual dangers of shark attacks. Carter Evans reports.
According to scientists, the fear of sharks, otherwise known as galeophobia, is learned and not something people are born with. Carter Evans visits California’s coastal waters and takes a deeper look at why attitudes toward the animal are changing.
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.
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.
A beach on New York's Long Island was temporarily closed to swimmers on Wednesday after a man on a paddle board was bit by a shark. The incident comes days after a lifeguard was bit by a shark in the same waters.
The apparent attack was just the latest in a string of incidents on Long Island this summer.
Chris Fischer, founder and expedition leader of the global nonprofit organization OCEARCH, joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss his research on the migration patterns of sharks and a new project seeking to tag 100 sharks in the Western North Atlantic. Fischer also discusses a new study that found sharks are more close to the shore in cities than one may think.
This comes after a girl was seriously injured in a brazen shark attack at a Florida beach Thursday.
A teenager in Florida and a man in California are recovering from recent shark attacks. Meg Oliver has more on what you need to know before you head to the beach.
July tends to be when great white sharks appear in earnest as the cape's waters warm, scientists say.
A popular surfing spot off California's scenic Monterey Bay was shut down Wednesday after a man was badly injured in a shark attack.
The study followed several dozen sharks off the coast of Miami.
"It's important to be aware of the dangers below the water as well as above," the sheriff's office wrote.
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.
The shark is believed to be 10 feet long. It was the first fatal shark attack in Australia's largest city since 1963.
Sydney, Australia hadn't had a fatal shark attack since 1963. It uses warning apps, nets and drones to try to prevent them.