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Dog taken by shark at Sydney beach prompts warning

The dog's owners witnessed the incident at Bonna Point, a popular off-leash beach, said Sutherland Shire Council.

"We were pretty traumatised, it was horrific," one owner, named only as Nigel, told the Sydney Morning Herald.

Shark-inspired drug may help treat fibrosis

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) scars lung tissue, causing breathing to become progressively harder.

It kills more than 5,000 people each year in the UK alone, according to the British Lung Foundation.

Researchers hope a new drug, inspired by an antibody in the blood of sharks, can begin human trials next year.

The drug, AD-114, was developed by researchers at Melbourne's La Trobe University and biotechnology company AdAlta.

10-year-old girl bitten by shark off Jacksonville Beach

The Jacksonville Beach Police Department says that the girl was bitten below her knee Wednesday afternoon and that her injuries were not life-threatening.

The girl was in about two feet of water, and the shark was estimated to be about three feet long.

It was the second shark bite this summer at Jacksonville Beach. The first was June 26 when a woman was bit while swimming.

Man killed by shark while diving off Australian coast

The adult woman had returned to their boat with scallops that the pair had collected then became concerned that her father, in his late 40s, had not surfaced after her, Inspector David Wiss told reporters in the state capital of Hobart.

"His daughter became worried and went down and checked on her father," Wiss said. "She saw a very large shark. She saw her father being attacked by the shark."