great white shark

A third white shark was tracked off Maine’s coast this season, experts said. A 12-foot adult male called Bobby E, the shark, also known as a great white shark, was detected this week in the waters of Casco Bay near Harpswell and Bailey Island, NBC affiliate News Center Maine reported. That’s near the site of Maine’s only known deadly...

A 15-foot great white shark was seen swimming in Cape Cod Bay in mid-June, a time when sharks typically return to the waters off Cape Cod and the Islands for the summer season.

A group of men fishing for flounder off the New Jersey coast on Saturday didn’t manage to catch any keepers — but they did return to shore with an unforgettable tale — and video — of a close encounter with a great white shark.

Typically, sharks don’t return to the waters off Cape Cod and the Islands until mid-June. But shark season got off to an early start this year, as about a dozen have already been spotted off the Massachusetts coast. The first confirmed sighting was on Sunday, May 29. A great white shark was spotted near the Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket….

Sharks have started to return to the Cape and Islands for the summer. Massachusetts’ first white shark sighting of the season was confirmed Monday, Memorial Day, by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy. The animal, also known as the great white shark, was spotted near the Great Point Lighthouse on Nantucket on Sunday. The conservancy’s Twitter page shared a local’s...

A massive 1,000-pound great white shark named “Ironbound” was recently recorded swimming near the New Jersey Shore.

Cape Cod voters, tourists and commercial fishermen are all likely to recognize sharks as an important, beneficial piece of the local marine ecosystem, but when it comes to seals, the groups have more divergent views, according to newly published data. A survey of more than 1,800 people found significant similarities in how different groups of people think about sharks in…

A photographer’s images of a huge great white shark off the coast of Mexico show a huge bite. Here’s what scientists think happened.

Researchers with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy have tagged more than 20 great white sharks off of Cape Cod so far this year, adding to a total of 250 tags since their research began in 2010.

This shark was eager to flash its toothy grin for the camera! On Friday, Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries captured footage of a white shark that was chasing his camera underwater off the coast of Cape Cod.  Based on the video shared by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy on Monday, the shark is anything but camera…

It happened in the matter of seconds – an encounter with a great white shark off Nauset Beach. Matt Pieciak’s cousin captured the moment on video while he tried to reel the big catch.

Matt Pieciak and his friends were having a day at Nauset Beach, casually cracking a beer and casting a line, when he wound up hooking a great white shark Sunday. “We started having some beers and I think we were playing corn hole and I saw the rod start to bend over my cousin’s shoulder,” Pieciak said. “That’s when...

Matt Pieciak says he’s well aware sharks are a common sight at Nauset Beach in Orleans but never did he imagine he would come so close to one off the shore.

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…