A woman is recovering after officials say she was likely bitten and injured by a young sand tiger shark during a summertime ...

A 20-year-old woman was swimming in waist-deep water at a popular beach in Long Island, New York, when officials believe she was most likely bitten by a young sand tiger shark earlier this week.

A 20-year-old woman was likely bitten by a juvenile sand tiger shark while swimming off a New York beach, officials said.

Sand tiger sharks can grow to up to 10 feet in length, but juveniles average 3 to 5 feet. These sharks have a menacing appearance, but aren't known for unprovoked attacks on humans.

American national pride has been on a steady slowdown since 2001, when Gallup first started recording data, and analysts said ...

A diver attempting to move a pregnant sand tiger shark to an isolated tank in an aquarium in Durban, South Africa, suddenly found himself being savagely attacked by the usually docile shark. At ...

Shark attacks in New York waters are so rare that there have been only 10 documented cases. ... dusky shark and sand tiger shark are high threat surf-zone sharks found off of Long Island, N.Y.

But in 2023, a swimmer at Rockaway was bitten by a shark and badly injured. New York City officials responded by expanding ...

The International Shark Attack File says fatal shark attacks and shark bites dropped worldwide in ... A 2016 study showed juvenile sand tiger sharks had taken up residence in Great South Bay, ...

Sand tiger sharks, also known as gray nurse sharks, have a deceivingly ferocious look. ... They occasionally hunt in groups, and have even been known to attack full fishing nets.

Still, according to the International Shark Attack File (ISAF), a global database maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History, sand tigers have only been implicated in 29 “unprovoked ...

When Shark Fetuses Attack. Posted: May 21, 2015. As humans, we tend to think of the womb as a nice, warm, safe place. But if you were a sand tiger shark, the womb might seem like the most ...