By Johnny Diaz In the first recorded fatal shark attack in Maine’s history, a woman was killed this week by a great white as she swam in the ocean off the state’s coast, the authorities said.

who positively identified the shark as a great white. "This is the only confirmed fatality in Maine waters from a shark attack," said the commissioner of Maine's Department of Marine Resources ...

During the press conference on Tuesday, Maine officials said Dimperio Holowach ... the ocean predator involved in the attack as a great white shark, the commissioner said.

It’s well documented great white sharks have been coming to Maine waters for centuries, said Arizona State University shark biologist James Sulikowski. He thinks we may see more in Maine in the ...

It is not uncommon for great white sharks to be found off the coast of the eastern seaboard. In recent years, populations of ...

Let’s review what we do know about great white sharks ... “Fishes of the Gulf of Maine,” by Bigelow and Schroeder, and Nora Gonzalez, ("The 1916 Shark Attacks That Gave Sharks a Bad Rap ...

There were 13 confirmed great white shark sightings in the past two days alone. In Maine, it’s the smaller harbor seals that dominate with as many as 75,000 estimated to reside in state waters ...

Another great white shark has been spotted chomping on a seal off the coast of Maine. The apex predator was seen killing and eating a seal off Whitehead Island Lighthouse in Maine earlier this week.

A great white shark ripped a seal apart off the coast of Maine on Thursday, as researchers reminded people to stay away from maimed seals if they come across the injured prey. The white shark bit ...

The presence of a great white shark off the coast of Maine didn’t surprise Chris Fischer, founder of OCEARCH, a shark research organization. Scientists working with the group have tagged sharks ...