Paramedics rushed to treat the teenager who was swimming off a beach in Queensland, but say she succumbed to serious injuries to her upper body.

A whale shark has left tropical waters to make a rare appearance off a town on the NSW South Coast a few hours’ drive from the Victorian border.

The researchers took swabs from the white shark's bite wounds and sequenced for any genetic material that the predator may have left behind. This confirmed the presence of orca DNA in the main bite, ...

Her tragic death comes a month after that of 28-year-old Lance Appleby, who was killed in a shark attack while surfing off the coast of Streaky Bay on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.

Worldwide, there were only 47 unprovoked attacks, down 22 from the previous year and well below the 10-year average of 70.

Since May, 2023, four surfers have been killed by great white sharks in South Australia. Lance Appleby ... also on the West Coast, while teenager Khai Cowley was taken in Innes National Park ...