Shark bites and deaths up even as species faces crisis: study

There were 69 unprovoked attacks in 2023, up slightly from 63 in 2022, and ten deaths, which is double the year before and a 12-year-high, according to the International Shark Attack File, an annual global report published Monday by the University of Florida.

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A July 2023 framegrab handout on January 29, 2024 by wildlife photographer Carlos Gauna, known as The Malibu Artist, shows an adult great white shark filmed off the California coast near Santa Barbara. Drone footage of a young shark emerging to the ocean surface could be the first sighting of a newborn great white, according to new research, potentially revealing a birthing site for the threatened ocean predators. (AFP)