A shark was spotted unusually far from home on Monday, having ventured from the ocean into a body of water further inland. The shark was spotted in Lake Merritt, a tidal lagoon in Oakland, California.

California Fish and Game, however, said that there is a black market for leopard sharks and it may have gotten dumped on the course after getting too big for someone's tank. More from CBS Los Angeles: ...

Life can be tough for one of California’s most common and beautiful sharks. Living much of the year on sandy bottoms around bays and coastlines, leopard sharks move temporarily into shallow ...

The big talk this week at a Southern California golf course wasn't about birdies, eagles or swallows but sharks -- specifically, a 2-foot-long leopard shark found wriggling on the 12th tee, about ...

In this 2016 file photo, leopard sharks swim off the coast of California. Andrew Nosal Tests have found a viral and fungal infection that somehow makes its way into the shark's brain, causing it ...

The species most impacted—by a significant margin—was leopard sharks. They found that out of 3,150 reports dating back to 1880, 2,409 happened in the U.S. Over half of these—58.8 percent ...

A big group of leopard sharks were captured on video near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, California. ... “But never a single shark in 15 years, ...

California shark attacks are most frequent in San Diego County, where Ericson was swimming, with 18 attacks taking place there since 1950. Sharks are common in the waters off San Diego, but they ...

This photo taken on December 12, 2024 shows experts handling a black-and-cream leopard shark to be artificially inseminated with the sperm of wild leopard sharks, at the Sydney Aquarium in Sydney.