Scientists find world's oldest evidence of a shark attack â and it isn't pretty In a new study from the University of Oxford, archeologists shared evidence of what could be the earliest known shark attack in recorded history â a 3,000-year-old human skeleton marked with gashes and puncture wounds. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Jun 28, 2021 5:58 PM ET | Last Updated: June 28 The original excavation photograph of shark attack victim Number 24 from the 1920s.(Submitted by J. Alyssa White/Laboratory of Physical Anthropology/Kyoto University)