Watch the harrowing moment in the video at the top of the story. The injured man told Storyful and local NBC News the shark ...

Shawn Meuse had a nasty encounter with a shark in Cayo Costa, Florida, after pulling it from the ocean and posing for photos with the beast.

While taking a photo, a shark squirmed and chomped down on a man’s leg on Cayo Costa, Florida, he was airlifted to a nearby ...

A Florida fisherman suffered a gruesome shark bite on his leg when a 6-foot lemon shark attacked him as he was posing for photos with the animal during a birthday fishing trip. The incident happened ...

A Florida angler learned that second law recently when he caught a lemon shark from shore, pulled the jaws open, and posed for a photo with the beast…then got bitten. It happened at Cayo Costa State ...

More than half a million Floridians work in ocean-related sectors, generating over $20 billion in wages. It’s been more than 50 years since I left Sarasota to pursue a career in marine science, but ...

Dramatic aerial footage shows storm surge flooding homes and a motel in North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Aug. 19 as Hurricane Erin battered the coast. Officials ordered evacuations in Dare County, ...

Great white sharks hold a baffling genetic puzzle: uniform nuclear DNA but divided mitochondrial DNA that defies migration and evolution theories. White sharks show a striking mismatch between the DNA ...

Two men caught the predator while on a shark-fishing trip and say they were preparing to release it back into the water -- when the shark bit one of the men in the leg. Shawn Meuse had to be airlifted ...

The man was rushed to the hospital after the incident, and he told one outlet "if it was a few inches one way, you know, I might not be here." ...

A fisherman who was bitten while posing for a photo with a shark is reflecting on the scary moment. On the evening of Saturday, Aug. 16, Shawn Meuse was on a birthday fishing trip with his friends on ...

Middle and high school students in South Florida have a unique opportunity to dive into marine science through the "Coastal Ocean Explorers" program.