It has to do with one particular species of shark—and it’s probably not the one you think.
Sharktober is real in Hawaii — and it's down to the reproductive pattern of predatory tiger sharks, an analysis of 30 years ...
The pattern appears to be driven by tiger shark biology, not by more people being in the water, marine biologists say ...
A new study has confirmed a statistically "significant" spike in shark bite incidents in Hawaiian waters every October.
Australia now has the world’s largest coastal drone-surveillance operation and is installing nonlethal traps, or drumlines, ...
For years, Hawaiʻi surfers and lifeguards have talked about “Sharktober,” a stretch of fall weeks when encounters with sharks ...
An ABC analysis of the national Shark-Incident Database shows that the average number of verified shark bite incidents ...
Midwinter marks the annual return of humpback whales to Hawaiʻi, swimming down from Alaska to breed in the warmer waters. Tiger sharks start showing up in greater numbers soon thereafter from across ...
Tiger sharks are typically solitary wanderers, and it wasn’t clear to scientists how they came together to reproduce. But as HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol reports, groundbreaking research from the ...
A surfer has been attacked by a shark in the fourth incident along the coast of New South Wales in 48 hours. Meanwhile, beaches have been closed across Sydney.