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According to a study from "Scientific Reports", the Otodus megalodon was the largest shark to swim in Earth's oceans. Its body size was 15 meters (50 feet).
2020-10-5

In the second case in a week in Australia, a surfing teenage boy is killed by a shark near Grafton, New South Wales.
2020-07-11

A shark kills a man in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the state's first such fatality since 1936.
2018-09-15

Italian foreign minister Giulio Terzi resigns from his post in protest over the return of two Italian marines to India to face charges for allegedly murdering fishermen.
2013-03-26

Two Italian marines accused of murdering Indian fishermen in international waters return to India to face legal charges, defusing a standoff between the two countries.
2013-03-22

Five species of shark and two species of manta ray receive international protection as part of CITES.
2013-03-11

Japan's Coast Guard sends a rescue team to the Russian fishing trawler "Alanet" with 24 fishermen on board which is in distress off Japanese Hokkaido Island.
2012-12-27

Philippine authorities announce the death toll from Typhoon Bopha has reached 1,020. Another 844 are still missing, most of them fishermen lost on boats out at sea. More than two weeks after the passage of the storm, nearly 27,000 people remain in emergency shelters.
2012-12-16

The "Waddenvereniging" in the Netherlands expects the human-friendly starry smooth-hound shark to return to the Wadden Sea in a few years, after specimina were marked in the Oosterschelde and in another Zeeland part of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.
2012-08-23

Egypt calls in international shark experts following recent attacks, one fatal, on tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh in the past week.
2010-12-6