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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…

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week event has been a television hit for decades, but what’s resonated with audiences hasn’t always done the same for shark scientists —plenty see serious flaws in the programming. One group of scientists has taken their criticism to the next level. They watched all 32 years of Shark Week to analyze who is represented on the...

The controversial shark fishing tournaments popular along the East Coast are now the target of conservationists who want events like these canceled. “You’re sending a message that sharks are entertainment,” said Massachusetts native and filmmaker Eli Roth, who directed a recent documentary focused on the killing of sharks. “We’re wiping them out for likes on Facebook and to give...

Activitsts are calling for a shark fishing tournament in Newburyport to be canceled.

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...

A white shark was spotted off of Chatham on Friday afternoon, according to Sharktivity.

After Maine’s first shark attack nearly a year ago, the state is adding new buoys to help track sharks.

Maine officials have launched a new tool to help people who believe they spotted a white shark find out if it was indeed the big fish. The Maine Department of Marine Resources has added the online tool to its website. It’s a form that allows shark spotters to upload photos and videos and submit a description of what they...

A shark washed ashore at First Encounter Beach in Eastham, Massachusetts, on Thursday. The porbeagle shark was dead by the time responders arrived, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy said. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service’s Apex Predator Program will collect the shark to determine what caused its death. Most sharks in the region are spotted...

A shark was spotted in Chatham, Massachusetts, Sunday afternoon.  The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy reported the shark sighting off North Beach Island.  The shark was spotted by a pilot about 2:40 p.m. Shark sightings become more common off Cape Cod from late June through October as part of a seasonal migration.

A gigantic shark sighting gave a boat full of tourists the thrill of a lifetime off the coast of Massachusetts.

A massive shark seen on video lurking around a tall ship off the coast of Massachusetts has social media in an uproar.

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy plans to open a shark museum at a site on Cape Cod that is currently home to a pirate museum. The conservancy announced Thursday it had signed a lease to take over space now occupied by the Expedition Whydah Museum in Provincetown, The Cape Cod Times reported. Barry Clifford, who discovered the pirate ship Whydah…

As the summer draws closer, a nonprofit dedicated to finding ways to make Cape Cod beaches safer is considering testing a new battery-powered buoy designed to deter sharks, a seasonal problem that often closes beaches and terrifies swimmers. Cape Cod Ocean Community was formed after Arthur Medici, 26, of Revere, was killed by a shark at Newcomb Hollow Beach in…

New technology could help keep swimmers safe from sharks.

A 12 to 14 foot shark was spotted Sunday at Race Point Beach in Provincetown in water that was just about three to four feet deep.

Authorities will investigate whether a dead tiger shark caught in a net off an Australian beach killed a surfer

At least three surfers reported seeing a shark fin in the water off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Monday morning, prompting lifeguards to shut down area beaches and triggering a search that stretched into neighboring Rockport. The sightings, which happened around 11 a.m. at Long Beach, sent swimmers running from the water, eyewitnesses said. “I saw, like, a little fin…

A shark is believed to have been seen off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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…