A man fishing from a kayak off a Hawaiian island has died after being bitten by a shark, authorities said Monday. The incident was the latest in an alarming spate of shark attacks in the state this year.

Two quick-thinking men on Newfoundland's northeast coast managed to save a Greenland shark from choking to death on a large piece of moose hide this past weekend.

The University of South Carolina is home to more than 200 years of history and tradition, rising from a single building in 1805 on what would become the heart of the campus, the Horseshoe.

Scientists have finally identified a new species of megamouth shark that prowled the oceans about 23 million years ago, nearly 50 years after the first teeth were discovered and then forgotten. The ancient shark likely prowled both deep and shallow waters for plankton and fish, using its massive mouth to filter food.

Animal conservation groups are enraged over the brutal slaughtering of thousands of dolphins off the coast of Peru, where the mammals are used as shark bait for an Asian delicacy known as shark fin soup. Shark fin soup is a very expensive dish in China, among other Asian countries. The extravagant dish comes at a much higher cost - not only on a humane and ethical level, but the price paid could be the disruption of our oceans' entire ecosystem.

A German tourist bitten by a shark while she was vacationing in Hawaii died Wednesday, a week after the attack.