A great white shark has washed up on a beach showing injuries that appear to come from fishing equipment with experts left deeply concerned. The shark, around eight feet in length, was found on a beach at Torrey Pines State Reserve...
Sailors were creeped after the body of a shark and the face of a pig has been pulled from the water. It was spotted by naval officers floating in the waters at the Darsena Medicea marina in the town of Portoferraio on the Italian island...
A lucky amateur prospector in the Australian state of Victoria has struck gold after unearthing a nugget weighing 5.5kg (177 ounces). The gold nugget, which has an estimated value A$300,000 ($315,000: £197,000), was reportedly found...
A miner struck some serious gold after finding a sizeable nugget worth at least £100,000 (A$135,000) in Australia. Mick Brown, found the 87-ounce (2.5 kilogram) solid chunk of gold several weeks ago while roaming with his metal detector...
Fisherman were left baffled after reeling in three sharks which had all been bitten in half by a mystery sea creature. Jason Moyce astonished followers on his Facebook page Trapman Bermagui where he posts images of his fishing haul. But...
A man in Australia managed to survive a terrifying encounter with a great white shark that bit his canoe in half. John Vincent was out paddling in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, at around 6am last Wednesday (17 August) when he had...
Three men in rural Victoria, Australia, have unearthed two golden nuggets worth almost £200,000. Ethan West and Brent Shannon, helped by Ethan’s father Paul West, made the discovery using a digger to clear the top layer of soil...
The nugget, worth £1,000, has been hidden inside a random box of six Chicken McNuggets. Yes, Ronald’s come over all Willy Wonka. But here’s the catch (you knew there’d be a catch, didn’t you?) – you’ll need to Travel to...
Derek Hough celebrated the start of Shark Week by sharing his own epic video of his encounter with a Great White Shark last year. The 35-year-old World of Dance star took to Instagram on Monday morning, revealing in his caption he...
AUSTRALIANS have taken to the country’s beaches today in an effort to participate in their new national sport shark punching, which was granted the status as national sport yesterday evening. The sport has gained an instantaneous...
But one lucky explorer is set for a windfall after discovering Britain’s largest ever gold nugget in a river in Scotland. Experts say that the 85.7g lump, which is the width of a golf ball, is worth at least £50,000 – and potentially...
An amateur prospector has found a 5.5kg nugget of gold worth £250,000 in the Australian outback. Using a state-of-the-art handheld metal detector, the unnamed man discovered the huge Y-shaped nugget buried in previously searched earth...
Matt Prior was diving at South West Rock, on the mid north coast of New South Wales, when a Grey Nurse Shark began to glide past him, the MailOnline reports. He captured the heart-stopping moment when the toothy predator swam towards...
Panicked anglers cry “Oh s***!” and scurry for safety as the massive beast falls on top of them. The saltwater fishermen hooked at least one Atlantic shortfin mako – the world’s fastest shark – off the...
Miners have discovered two massive gold-encrusted rocks estimated to be worth millions of dollars each in Western Australia. The biggest weighed 95kg (210lb) and was found to contain more than 2,400 ounces of gold. Canadian mining...
This summer gold has been the worst performing precious metal, with its price dropping nearly 40% lower since its 2011 peak. What else is there to know about the world’s most revered special metal? 1) Jewellery In Q2 of this...
A pair of fishermen have pulled a shark missing most of its body from the depths of the ocean. Sammy Hitzke and Shaun Whale shared footage of their extraordinary find during a fishing trip off the coast of Queensland, about 250km from...
For 50-year-old fisherman Jason Gillespie, it was a rare first to have caught an albino all-white shark one day. He was deep-sea fishing near the Isle Of Wight on Tuesday along with some friends when he made the marvellous catch, claims...
An amateur gold prospector has made the find of a lifetime in southern Australia, unearthing a nugget worth almost £200,000. The Y-shaped nugget, which weighed five kilograms or 117 ounces (11 lbs), was discovered by an unidentified...
The fist-sized lump of precious metal weighs more than 6lb (2.8kg) and is expected to carry a price tag of $350,000 (£220,000). The chunk is known as the Butte Nugget, after the Northern California county where a gold hunter says...
An angler saw his fishing rod snap in two in an hour-long gruelling tussle as he reeled in a monster shark off the southern British coast. Ray Breton, 53, was fishing alone on his 16ft long boat off the Isle of Wight when the huge...
