The “mistaken identity” idea is rooted in the belief that sharks confuse surfers with sharks’ natural prey – seals. The theory was first introduced in 1974 by a researcher named H. David Baldridge, in ...

For decades, experts and the general public believed that shark attacks on humans were a case of mistaken identity. Some researchers suggest that this may not always be the case, and that some shark ...

When a surfer is bitten by a shark, especially in surfing hotspots in the U.S. and Australia, the story often goes viral. After all, movies like Jaws leaned hard into the idea that big sharks have it ...