For one swimmer, a late night dip ended in a painful altercation with a cookie-cutter shark, the first documented case of the small shark nipping at a living human. But why did it happen? The attack ...

Its findings build on earlier UH Mānoa research that linked moonless nights to rare cookiecutter shark bites on humans, particularly swimmers in Hawaiʻi’s ocean channels, suggesting darkness plays a ...

Learn how Indigenous knowledge and modern science reveal the rare cookiecutter shark, which hunts on moonless nights.

Which shark cookie cutter set is best? When you were little, your parents probably told you not to play with your food. However, when a cookie comes in your favorite shape, such as a shark that can ...

Two pictures of the white shark with bite and scar inflicted by a cookiecutter shark. To the right of the fresh bite (see arrow) is a suspected crescent-shaped scar from an earlier bite. Cookiecutter ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Ouch. All bite and no bark. The first ever recorded instance of a human bitten by a ...

The fact that there is such a thing as a cookie-cutter shark — shaped like a cigar, no less — is not nearly as unnerving as the idea that its name is fitting. They are among the world’s “lesser-known ...

For one swimmer, a late night dip ended in a painful altercation with a cookie-cutter shark, the first documented case of the small shark nipping at a living human. But why did it happen? The attack ...

The fact that there is such a thing as a cookie-cutter shark — shaped like a cigar, no less — is not nearly as unnerving as the idea that its name is fitting. They are among the world’s “lesser-known ...