I had been fighting a tuna for three hours off the coast of Bermuda when a 16-foot tiger shark appeared out of nowhere.

When Walter Maxwell hooked into a giant tiger shark from a South Carolina pier in 1964, onlookers were sure he'd lose the ...

These top predators eat smaller animals, balancing the populations of fish and other marine life. For example, sharks protect ...

Andriana Fragola opens up to PEOPLE exclusively about where her passion for sharks began, and why she calls swimming with the ...

Tiger sharks, named for their distinctive color pattern, are among the largest of the sharks and are recorded up to 18 feet ...

As the Fourth of July holiday approaches and families are planning beach time, some people on Long Island have lingering ...

One of the world's largest gatherings of tiger sharks has recently started to appear yearly on the Florida Gulf Coast.

Though there are many shark species in North Carolina, bites are rare, Cahoon said, noting that most shark bites occur in ...

UNC researcher Chelsea Black partnered with Indonesian shark fishermen. Together, they discovered the third-known tiger shark ...

A 20-year-old woman suffered minor injuries when she was apparently bitten by a sand tiger shark while standing in waist-deep ...

The tiger shark has a reputation for eating anything and everything. It isn’t fussy, but that’s a big reason why it’s so ...

This story, “Big-Game Fishing’s Greatest Catch,” appeared in the April 1984 issue of Outdoor Life.Maxwell’s 1964 tiger shark remains tied for the all-tackle world-record (with a shark caught off the ...