The family of the 9-year-old girl who survived a shark attack speaks out about their daughter’s recovery progress at Tampa General Hospital.

Leah Lendel was released from the ICU Wednesday after a shark nearly bit off her hand on June 11 while she was swimming off Boca Grande.

One of the scientists involved in tracking Contender – the biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the ...

"You're being very brave. Very strong," a Lee County sheriff's deputy told a 9-year-old girl after a shark bit and partially ...

A positive update to a terrifying story, as a 9yr girl who nearly lost her hand in a shark attack is out of the ICU.

Nadia Lendel said Leah was about 4 feet from her in 4-foot-deep water when she said her child "flew out," her hand "hanging" ...

There was a string of shark attacks along the Jersey shore in July 1916, eerily similar to the movie “Jaws”. However, the book’s author (who inspired Steven Spielberg’s famous movie) told ...

A shark was filmed swimming among terrified small children on an Israeli beach before an attack on a diver who is missing and feared dead. In what could be the first fatal shark attack in the ...

Beaches have been closed following a shark attack at an isolated Australian beach that has left a woman fighting for her life with severe leg injuries. The incident happened at Gunyah Beach near ...

The number of unprovoked shark bites worldwide fell in 2024, with the United States logging the highest number of unprovoked bites, shark researchers recently announced. There were 47 unprovoked ...

Florida is once again tops in the world for the number of unprovoked shark bites, even as the overall number of attacks declined in 2024. An annual report by the International Shark Attack File ...

The U.S. is again leading the way. While shark attacks dropped around the world and in the U.S. last year, the U.S. again had the highest reported number of unprovoked bites. There were a total of ...