Sharks

Every June, the great white sharks return to the waters of Cape Cod. And this year is no exception. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said a great white dubbed James was detected on a receiver off North Beach in Chatham on Friday. The receiver was just deployed on Thursday. James was originally tagged in 2014 and has returned to the…...

For the first time, a great white shark has been tagged off the coast of Rhode Island. WJAR reported that a tag was placed on the juvenile shark on Saturday, when it was located in the Point Judith Harbor of Refuge. The tag will allow the Atlantic Shark Institute to track the shark for 10 years. Less than 300 sharks…

Maine state coastal parks will adopt a flag system used in Massachusetts to warn beachgoers of the presence of sharks. The move comes after the state’s first documented fatal shark attack in the state last summer. A woman was killed on July 27, 2020, by a great white while swimming about 20 yards offshore in Harpswell. “It’s nothing new, but....

Researchers in New England and Canada are teaming up to learn more about the great white sharks appearing in the Northeast’s waters in greater numbers each summer.

A group of black women in shark science have come together to form Minorities in Shark Science to encourage young women of color to become marine scientists and offer them opportunities to launch them into the field.

Kara Yopak, who leads the Yopak Zombie Lab at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, shows how you can determine shark behavior through their brains.

Nick Muto has fished up and down the New England coast and there is nothing that gets his blood boiling more than the sight of a seal. Muto, whose two boats fish for groundfish such as skate and monkfish as well as lobster, is among a growing group of anglers, beach goers and local officials who are quick to blame…

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy has added a feature to see where tagged sharks are being spotted in real-time across Cape Cod.

A shark was spotted swimming in three to four feet of water on a beach in Provincetown on Sunday. Tamzen Tortolani McKenzie captured video of the shark swimming back and forth after she saw its fin breaching the water’s surface at Race Point Beach. The shark, estimated to be about 12 to 14 feet long, swam around the area for…

Bryan Legare from the Center for Coastal Studies shows some amazing visualizations of their research into shark movement near Cape Cod.

At least three surfers reported seeing a shark fin in the water off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Monday morning, prompting lifeguards to shut down area beaches and triggering a search that stretched into neighboring Rockport. The sightings, which happened around 11 a.m. at Long Beach, sent swimmers running from the water, eyewitnesses sa...

The past week was another busy one for shark sightings. Sharks were spotted off the coast of Maine, off Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, off Nantucket, and mostly swimming and feeding off Cape Cod. This summer, sharks have been spotted further north than in recent years, in areas like New Hampshire and southern Maine, where a woman was fatally attac...