Sharks

Dr. Evil, of 'Austin Powers' fame, was a simple super villain. All he wanted was "sharks with frickin' lasers attached to their heads." Instead he got ill-tempered mutated sea bass. It was 1997, when the Mike Myers' character made this notorious aquatic request. And, finally, someone has indulged him.

A group of fishermen 25 miles southeast of Wrightsville Beach, NC were probably thinking they needed a bigger boat when they spotted a 18-foot shark circling. The video is NSFW because of the typical fisherman language when they spot an enormous shark fin poking out of the water.

A 27-year-old California man narrowly survived a horrific shark attack while surfing 150 yards offshore in the waters off Marina State Beach on Saturday.

An Oregon surfer narrowly avoided a deadly encounter with a great white shark this week. Unfortunately, his surfboard wasn't so lucky.

When a photo of a dead one-eyed Albino shark pup, allegedly found in the stomach of a pregnant bull shark in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, circled the Internet earlier this year, most in the marine biology community dismissed it as a doctored hoax.

Last time we checked, golf was supposed to be relaxing. But at a golf course in Australia, the links are now home to the stuff of nightmares: a school of bull sharks.

Typically, surfers will do just about anything to avoid a great white shark. But compassion entered into the picture when a baby great white shark washed up on shore in Venice Beach, Ca. over the weekend.

As Hurricane Irene nears the East coast, there's been talk of evacuating below-sea-level areas from Florida all the way to New England. If you've got a fear of flooding, it'll only be bolstered by this horrifying photo out of water-logged Puerto Rico. In the shot taken from a car, a shark can be clearly seen swimming down the highway, like something out of a terrible Samuel L. Jackson movie. Read

Sharks get a bad rap and if you've ever been attacked by one, you'd probably say they deserve it. But here's the rub: If you haven't been attacked by a shark, chances are you never will.

Today commences Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, and this year, comedian Andy Samberg has been appointed "Chief Shark Officer," putting the SNL funnyman in deep sea peril.

In a stunt that brings new meaning to the phrase "jump the shark," a Cape Cod man actually jumped on top of a shark, riding atop it for 15 feet through the ocean. Naturally, he got footage of the whole thing. "I've been waiting for an opportunity like this my whole life," said fisherman Erik Jacobs, who spotted a basking shark swimming around his boat, and then pounced. Read Mo

One pooch recently proved he's alpha dog material by driving away a shark in the waters near One Arm Point, a remote community in western Australia. Good boy! In a YouTube video featured on 'Today,' the dog can be seen paddling contentedly through the ocean while two sharks lurk beneath the surf. It's difficult to gauge the size of the fish, but they certainly appear to be large. The dog showed no

During a segment on Australia's 'Today' show, shark expert Paul Bart was brought in to discuss alleged shark sightings in a popular swimming lake down under. After he refutes the fish tales, the show's hosts gave Bart a chance to catch the rumored sea beast with a fishing rod, expecting him to come back empty-handed. Bart casts off and promptly hooks a duck, who had come down to the lake for a qui

Fishing from a kayak doesn't provide the angler with as sturdy of a base as he would have if he was dropping bait off of a more traditional fishing vessel. Self described 'hardcore Kayak angler' David Saldamando almost learned this lesson the hard way when he hooked an eight-feet thresher shark off the shore of Santa Barbara, California.

An extreme shark encounter was inadvertently caught on tape by Orlando Sentinel photographer Jacob Langston while he was filming a group of surfers at New Smyrna Beach, Florida. A four-foot spinner shark suddenly emerged from the water and did a barrel roll over an unsuspecting person. Totally gnarly, bro!