Marconi Beach

A photo of a washed-up shark on Cape Cod offers a rare close-up look at the elusive animal. The 6-foot porbeagle shark was found dead just north of on Marconi Beach Sunday, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, which shared the photo on Facebook.

Environmental officials on Friday shared a startling photo of a white shark swimming close to a surfer off a popular Cape Cod beach.

A Cape Cod beach was temporarily shut down to swimming Friday after multiple shark sightings.

Swimmers were ordered out of the water Thursday after a confirmed shark sighting at a Cape Cod beach.

A Cape Cod beach was temporarily closed to swimming twice Wednesday after shark sightings.

Sharks were sighted or detected at beaches on Cape Cod and at Plymouth, Massachusetts, Friday, one of them eating a seal just 25 feet from shore and another seen jumping out of the water. The great white shark seen eating the seal was a stone’s throw from shore about a quarter mile north of Nauset Public Beach in Orleans, the...

Sharks were sighted or detected at beaches on Cape Cod and at Plymouth, Massachusetts, Friday, one of them eating a seal just 25 feet from shore and another seen jumping out of the water. The great white shark seen eating the seal was a stone’s throw from shore about a quarter mile north of Nauset Public Beach in Orleans, the...

A Cape Cod beach was closed temporarily to swimmers Wednesday morning after a shark sighting. Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, Massachusetts was closed to swimming for at least one hour after the shark was sighted at 10:27 a.m., according to the Sharktivity app.

A Cape Cod beach was temporarily closed to swimming Wednesday after a shark sighting. Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts was closed until at least 11:15 a.m. after the white shark was spotted, according to the Sharktivity app.

At least three Cape Cod beaches were temporarily closed to swimming Monday after shark sightings. Swimmers were ordered out of the water at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet Monday morning after a shark was spotted, according to the Sharktivity app.

Swimmers were ordered out of the water at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet Tuesday after a shark sighting. The beach was closed to swimming until at least 10:20 after a white shark was spotted, according to the Sharktivity app.

Multiple shark sightings have closed beaches in Cape Cod and Nantucket on Sunday. A shark spotted at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro on Sunday led officials to close the beach to swimmers until given further notice.

Shark sightings briefly closed three beaches to swimming on Cape Cod Friday. Beaches on the Cape are routinely closed for one hour after shark sightings, which have been occurring on a daily basis this summer.

Two Cape Cod beaches were closed to swimmers after great white sharks were spotted near shore Thursday morning. The first sighting was reported at Marconi Beach shortly before 11:40 a.m., according to the Sharktivity app.

Swimmers at a Cape Cod beach were ordered to stay near the shore Tuesday after two sharks were spotted about a mile away.

Two Cape Cod beaches were temporarily closed to swimmers Monday after separate shark sighting.

A Great White Shark has been spotted 15 yards off of Nauset Beach on Cape Cod, closing the beach to swimmers.

Two shark sightings on Cape Cod closed beaches in Provincetown and Truro on Monday. The sightings, recorded at 1:39 and 1:43 p.m. by the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, come after 10 sightings on the Cape and Nantucket over the weekend, five each day.

In recent years, great white shark sightings have become all the more common on Cape Cod. Already this year, more than 150 of the sharks have been spotted off of Massachusetts. Most of the sightings are on the outer Cape, from Chatham to Provincetown. But there have also been many sightings in Cape Cod Bay, where research scientists have been...

Over the past week, there were 17 shark sightings off Cape Cod, including seven over the weekend alone. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app, great white sharks were spotted in Cape Cod Bay and off Truro, Eastham, Orleans, Chatham and Monomoy Island.