A “super” El Niño that began this past winter will cause an explosion in great white shark numbers in Southern California ...

How El Niño and warming oceans could affect shark sightings this summer—and what experts say about the risk to beachgoers.

With an uptick in great white shark activity at SoCal beaches, a team from the Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab tags the giant fish with a goal of gleaning insights that can improve ocean safety.

Five killer whales attacked a juvenile whale shark in Mexico’s Gulf of California on May 26, 2024, ramming it at high speed, ...

Authorities shut down Lovers Point as a whale carcass raises concerns about increased shark activity.

A Monterey County woman’s death in a shark attack off Pacific Grove in late December marked the 17th shark fatality off California’s coast since 1950. State data shows at least 235 shark attacks have ...

San Luis Obispo, Calif. — A bodyboarder was attacked by a great white shark in central California on Christmas Eve and died within minutes, official reports have concluded. Tomas Abraham Butterfield, ...

A California surfer was bitten by a shark Tuesday, suffering gruesome “puncture wounds,” in the first such attack in the state this year, according to the Coast Guard. Tommy Civik, 26, was chewed up ...

A 39-year-old man surfing off the coast of Big River Beach suffered injuries to his legs, officials say. State park officials said at around 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday they received a report of a shark ...