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[129] [131] On October 25, 2010, the Santa Barbara County coroner confirmed the species as great white after conferring with shark experts from the Los Angeles-based Shark Research Committee. The shark that attacked Ransom is believed to have been 17–18 feet (5.2–5.5 m) long, weighing approximately 4,000 pounds (1,814 kg).
Lists of fatal shark attacks include: List of fatal shark attacks in Australia; List of fatal shark attacks in Réunion; List of fatal shark attacks in South African territorial waters; List of fatal shark attacks in the United States
2024 was an "exceptionally quiet year" for shark attacks. But the U.S. still led the globe - again. See where the fatal attacks happened.
Since 1916, scholars have debated which shark species was responsible and the number of animals involved, with the great white shark and the bull shark most frequently cited. Personal and national reaction to the fatalities involved a wave of panic that led to shark hunts aimed at eradicating the population of "man-eating" sharks and protecting ...
Confirmed attacks in 2024 dwarfed numbers reported in the previous year's International Shark Attack File, which recognized 91 global incidents, including 69 unprovoked bites and 22 provoked bites ...
With fatalities spiking in 2023, several deadly shark attacks also made headlines. In December 2023, a shark killed 44-year-old Lauren Erickson Van Wart of Boston, Massachusetts while she was ...
Several species of hammerhead sharks. Mako shark. This 13-foot, 1,398-pound male white shark is tracking off South Carolina as the predators move south for the winter, OCEARCH says.
Identification of the 8 extant shark orders. Shark is the naming term of all members of Selachimorpha suborder in the subclass Elasmobranchii, in the class Chondrichthyes.The Elasmobranchii also include rays and skates; the Chondrichthyes also include Chimaeras.