The end of Australia’s long summer school holidays usually draws crowds to the beach but a spate of shark attacks in the country’s most populous state has triggered warnings to stay out of the water.

We’ve turned to the experts at the International Shark Attack File to uncover the seven shark species most notorious for their aggressive behavior. These powerful predators have earned their reputations as some of the ocean’s most dangerous inhabitants.

Banning teeth does not stop sharks from being sharks. And banning plain speech does not make the public safer.

A man who was attacked by a bull shark at Manly would have likely died without critical units of blood he received following a swift, 10-second handover between police and paramedics likened to “F1 pit stop” on a Sydney bridge.

As the best hunters in the ocean, sharks have scared and fascinated people for generations. They rule the ocean with rows of very sharp teeth and senses that can pick up even the smallest splash. The good news is that most sharks are not interested in ...

An aggressive shark capsized a man's kayak along Florida's Atlantic Coast. The terrifying moments were caught on camera. It happened just off Stuart, Florida. Ben Chancey was trying to catch a grouper when several bull sharks started swimming around his kayak.

To state something very obvious, sharks are dangerous. Much of that danger has to do with their teeth — both in terms of how sharp they are and how many of them they have. (In some cases, they can be measured in the hundreds.

Three attacks in two days are the latest in a fourfold increase in shark bites along the NSW coast in recent years.

Spate of incidents involving sharks across Sydney and New South Wales have rattled even the most seasoned surfers and beachgoers