New Smyrna Beach in Florida lived up to its reputation as the unofficial Shark Bite Capital of the World last Thursday when a shark bit a 16-year-old surfer as he paddled between waves.

Many of the shark bites in Volusia County were likely from juvenile blacktip sharks. Young sharks probably do not yet distinguish well between humans and their natural prey, such as fish ...

The saltwater creature was a juvenile blacktip shark, George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the University of Florida, told the Traverse City Record-Eagle.

A juvenile shark with formidable teeth was found washed up on the shore of Palm Beach. ... “I've been observing black tip sharks near the shore almost daily,” Leonard told The Post.

A 6-foot shark was seen in the area where a teen was bit on the arm while surfing 500 feet offshore in the swell of Hurricane Larry on Sept. 9, 2021.

A group of eight juvenile blacktip reef sharks swim in the early morning, during low tide, in the shallow waters used as a nursery, in Maya Bay, Thailand, February 27, 2023.

A marine biologist based in the Maldives has shared footage showing blacktip reef sharks attacking a stingray in a rarely observed “mob-hunting” event.

Reistad and Norris decided to look at maternal offloading and diet-based mercury exposure for neonatal and juvenile blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus).The species is widespread in warm ...

"One of the main reasons animals group together is to avoid predators. In this case, a large school of hardyhead silversides faces four juvenile blacktip reef sharks, which occasionally attack ...

Researchers later said he was most likely bitten by a juvenile bull shark or a blacktip. A Georgia surf instructor is back in the water days after a shark bit him on the leg off Tybee Island.