Each year, unsuspecting divers, surfers and swimmers suffer shark bites – with some unfortunately not surviving to tell the tale. We’ve ranked the top 20 of the 500+ shark species, counting down to the ‘big three’, whose victims number in the hundreds.

We’ve turned to the experts at the International Shark Attack File to uncover the seven shark species most notorious for their aggressive behavior. These powerful predators have earned their reputations as some of the ocean’s most dangerous inhabitants.

Banning teeth does not stop sharks from being sharks. And banning plain speech does not make the public safer.

To state something very obvious, sharks are dangerous. Much of that danger has to do with their teeth — both in terms of how sharp they are and how many of them they have. (In some cases, they can be measured in the hundreds.

As the best hunters in the ocean, sharks have scared and fascinated people for generations. They rule the ocean with rows of very sharp teeth and senses that can pick up even the smallest splash. The good news is that most sharks are not interested in ...

Three attacks in two days are the latest in a fourfold increase in shark bites along the NSW coast in recent years.