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Researchers uncover the remains of what they say is a 3,000-year-old shark attack victim, in what is believed to be the earliest direct evidence for a shark attack on a human.

Researchers have discovered what they say is the earliest direct evidence of a shark attack on a human, with the sea creature inflicting some 790 injuries on a man 3,000 years ago.

Researchers have forensically analyzed a 3,000-year-old Japanese skeleton and shown that his extensive wounds were from the oldest verifiable shark attack known.

A total of 790 deep, serrated injuries were found on a body that was recently excavated.

Jun 10, 2021 | 11:54 AM Daytona Beach, FL – The city of Daytona Beach wants residents to know that there’s rental assistance for income-eligible residents affected financially by COVID-19. Compliance Manager Don Gooding said the city-initiated program began in May 2020  and started with $2.6 million. There’s now less than $65,000 remaining. “This has been a very successful initiative because we’ve been able to quickly give residents the financial help they need to avoid b...

The Florida Department of Children and Families is administering a statewide Emergency Rental Assistance Program that will pay up to $2,000 a month.

Florida received $1.4 billion for Emergency Rental Assistance Programs from the Treasury in late January, of which $529 million went directly to local governments. The remaining $800 million is what Florida residents can now apply for through OUR Florida, according to a press release from DCF.  “I would like to thank Governor DeSantis for his leadership as we continue to work together to help our families become economically self-sufficient,” DCF Secretary Shevaun Harris said in a prepared...

Article body copy Between June and December 2017 alone, eight fishermen operating out of Isla San Esteban, Mexico, illegally caught and killed as many as 14 great white sharks. Plying the waters of the Gulf of California in small boats known as pangas, they hunted down the enormous fish, hauled them to remote beaches, and dismembered them. To conceal their activity, they mixed the flesh in with their legal catch. From each shark the fishermen kept a tooth. From one, they extracted a full set o...

There are no perfect defenses against shark bites. But wearable tech might help, researchers say. Kim Bellware © Richard Bouhet/AFP/Getty Images Surfers practice at the Saint-Leu surfing spot on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion on March 26. It reopened after a shark safety center debuted. (Richard Bouhet/AFP/Getty Images) A shark swimming the waters off Australia looking for something to sink its teeth into may think twice if an electrical field disrupts its fir...

A fisherman caught a shark off the coast of Indonesia that greatly resembles Baby Shark from the popular childrens song.