The boat turned out to be a 35-foot-long fin-back whale, freshly dead, leaking fluids for hundreds of yards. This slick had ...

A surfer had minor injuries from being bitten by a shark Tuesday in the fourth attack off the coast of Australia's most populous state in three days. The series of attacks have prompted beach closures ...

Australian police are investigating whether a woman found dead on a popular beach was killed by dingoes, as a recent spate of shark attacks prompted officials to close dozens of other beaches on the ...

Many of the closed beaches were in Sydney, the site of three of the attacks. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia Dozens of beaches in eastern Australia were closed on Tuesday, after four ...

Australia’s long summer school holidays usually draws crowds to the beach but a spate of shark attacks in the country’s most populous state has triggered warnings to stay out of the water. Around 40 ...

Jan. 19 (UPI) --A surfer was bitten by a shark in waters off Sydney on Monday evening, the second person to suffer critical injuries in a shark attack near the Australia's largest city in little more ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man and boy were critically injured and another boy had his surfboard bitten during three separate shark attacks in Sydney in just over 24 hours, police said on Monday.

Three shark attacks struck Sydney beaches in just over 24 hours, police said. A man in his 20s and a 12-year-old boy were critically injured with severe leg wounds; both were hospitalized. An ...

A series of three shark attacks in just over 24 hours near Sydney’s beaches has left two people in critical condition and sent shock waves through a region where such occurrences are rare, authorities ...

A 12-year-old Australian boy was fighting for his life after suffering catastrophic injuries in a shark attack in Sydney Harbor, surviving only because his friends leaped from a cliff and dragged him ...

A 12-year-old boy is “fighting for his life,” a man in his 20s was left in critical condition and an 11-year-old boy escaped with only damage to his surfboard in a spate of shark attacks at beaches in ...