great white shark

Scientists at the New England Aquarium are asking for help identifying a great white shark that was spotted eating a dead whale off the coast of Maine at the end of last week. On Friday, Steve Brettell and a friend captured the shark on camera shortly before the whale carcass washed up on Mother’s Beach in Kennebunk. Brettell said...

The shark, which was spotted feeding on a whale in Kennebunk, isn’t tagged, scientists say.

Now that shark season is officially here, researchers on Cape Cod are busy trying to find a way to predict when the animals are swimming close to the shore.

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…

A massive shark seen on video lurking around a tall ship off the coast of Massachusetts has social media in an uproar.

A great white shark was spotted off the coast of Maine Thursday afternoon, according to Wells police, about two and a half weeks after the state’s first deadly shark attack. Several beachgoers alerted a lifeguard around noon, police said, to say they had spotted fins in the water off of Wells Beach. As lifeguards were about to investigate with...

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 attacked…

Swimmers were ordered out of the water at several Cape Cod beaches on Thursday morning due to shark sightings.

July and August are prime shark season in New England, especially off Cape Cod. But already this summer, numerous sharks have been spotted even further north, in areas like the North Shore of Massachusetts and even southern Maine, where a woman was fatally attacked by a great white last month. So far, there have been over 250 shark sightings off…

Seals are thriving off the Northeast coast thanks to decades of protections, and that victory for wildlife has brought a consequence for humans — more encounters with sharks. Seals are a favorite prey of large sharks such as the great white. The death this week of swimmer Julie Dimperio Holowach, who was killed by a great white off Harpswell, Maine,…

Authorities in Maine said Tuesday the shark that killed a woman in a rare attack off the state’s coast was a great white. The shark bite killed Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63, of New York City, the Maine Department of Marine Resources said. The shark fatally bit Holowach off Bailey Island on Monday while she was swimming with her daughter, who was...

A Maine man who witnessed Monday’s deadly shark attack described what he saw from his own home a day later. Stephen Arnold was working inside his home Monday afternoon and looking out his window. “I saw the two swimmers, right there at that rock ledge. They were actually splashing, and laughing, and talking with each other,” said Arnold. He...

Arizona State University professor James Sulikowski had already been researching sharks in Maine when one fatally attacked a swimmer. Sulikowski sat down with NECN to discuss how rare the attack is

There may not be as many tourists on Cape Cod this summer, but there will be sharks. Shark season on the Cape kicked off with a bang on Wednesday, as the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and Greg Skomal tagged three white sharks who were circling a whale carcass off Monomoy Island during their first research trip. A shark sighting was…

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy tagged three great white sharks off the coast of Cape Cod Wednesday, catching it all on video.

A massive great white shark that weighs over 2,000 pounds has made its way from Nova Scotia, where it was tagged, down to the Florida keys in just over a month.

A massive great white shark that weighs over 2,000 pounds has made its way from Nova Scotia, where it was tagged, down to the Florida Keys in just over a month. (Video courtesy: OCEEARCH)

Several sharks spotted off Cape Cod temporarily closed another beach to swimmers Thursday afternoon, according to Truro police. The sharks were spotted off Longnook Beach in Truro just before 1 p.m. by a state police helicopter, prompting authorities to close the beach to swimmers for about an hour.

A Massachusetts State Police air wing spotted several sharks off the coast of Truro Thursday afternoon.