Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 14-year-old boy from Missouri was standing in knee-deep water when his foot was bitten by a shark Wednesday in Daytona Beach, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Science keeps trying but has yet to find a reliable way to keep sharks at bay. Even the late Julia Child, before she went with all ...

Most people love the ocean, but few of us are eager to be a shark snack, thus shark repellent, but how well do these devices actually work?

Shark attacks on humans are still very rare — only about 70 per year. They are still less common than lightning strikes (270 cases per year) or drowning deaths (320,000 deaths per year). And sharks ...

BIMINI, Bahamas -- For decades, people have been searching for a chemical substance that repels sharks. Now an American inventor believes he has grasped it. Eric Stroud, a research chemist who heads ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A new shark-repellent device demonstrated in a viral YouTube video is drawing attention for what appears to be its ability to drive away dozens of sharks with a single blast.

There’s been a lot of shark activity recently, and particularly in Australia, when a spate of four bull shark attacks went down in just 48 hours in the Sydney area. Surfer Andre de Ruyter, 27, lost ...

For decades, sharks have been the unintended victims of longline fisheries aimed at tuna and swordfish. Rising accidental catches have contributed to population declines and created serious challenges ...

Eric Stroud is in the business of spoiling appetites. His clients include some of the most voracious creatures on the planet—the tiger shark, the reef shark and the southern stingray, to name a few.

Interest in sharks peaks every summer, when more people hit the beach and start looking for that tell-tale fin. This year, between Sharknado 2: The Second One and Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" — ...

I’d always thought “shark repellant” was just sort of an ACMEesque joke product, but apparently there have been a variety of products available for just such a purpose as far back as World War II. The ...

A 14-year-old boy from Missouri was standing in knee-deep water when his foot was bitten by a shark Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Florida, a few miles from where a fellow teenager was also attacked by a ...