New Smyrna Beach in Florida lived up to its reputation as the unofficial Shark Bite Capital of the World last Thursday when a shark bit a 16-year-old surfer as he paddled between waves.

Many of the shark bites in Volusia County were likely from juvenile blacktip sharks. Young sharks probably do not yet distinguish well between humans and their natural prey, such as fish ...

The saltwater creature was a juvenile blacktip shark, George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the University of Florida, told the Traverse City Record-Eagle.

Man finds dead juvenile shark on Palm Beach shore, turns to Reddit for help identifying it Report dead sharks on the beach to Florida Fish and Wildlife by calling 800-636-0511.

A 6-foot shark was seen in the area where a teen was bit on the arm while surfing 500 feet offshore in the swell of Hurricane Larry on Sept. 9, 2021.

A group of eight juvenile blacktip reef sharks swim in the early morning, during low tide, in the shallow waters used as a nursery, in Maya Bay, Thailand, February 27, 2023.

Blacktip reef sharks at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium are shown. In Florida, blacktip sharks and bull sharks accounted for about 40% of attacks from 1920 to 2012. (Alex Garcia / Chicago Tribune) ...

A marine biologist based in the Maldives has shared footage showing blacktip reef sharks attacking a stingray in a rarely observed “mob-hunting” event.

Researchers later said he was most likely bitten by a juvenile bull shark or a blacktip. A Georgia surf instructor is back in the water days after a shark bit him on the leg off Tybee Island.