Sydney, Australia — A shark bit and killed a 17-year-old girl swimming off an eastern Australian island on Monday, officials said, in the country's third reported fatal attack in just over five weeks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project, a bottlenose dolphin wearing a marine sponge on its nose to ...

The biggest and most expensive shark surveillance program on the planet is about to change what a day at the beach looks like ...

By Sean Mowbray Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is renowned for its coral, but far less so for its expansive seagrass meadows.

Thanks to the new Shark Bay boardwalk at Hamelin Pool, visitors to WA's Shark Bay will soon be able to see hyper-rare stromatolites up close.

But this behavior — passed down through generations — is trickier than it looks, according to new research published Tuesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Hunting with a sponge on their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sky turned blood red in Western Australia's Shark Bay ahead of the arrival of a Tropical Cyclone Narelle on Friday, March 27.

A young Swiss woman was fatally injured by a shark on a remote beach in Australia's Crowdy Bay National Park. Her partner survived seriously injured - only thanks to courageous first responders who ...

A shark killed a woman and seriously wounded a man taking an early morning swim with her at a national park beach on Australia’s east coast Thursday, police said. Experts say a shark rarely attacks ...