This animal kills 100,000 people a year. Why can’t we stop it?

There are few animals humans fear more than sharks.

This is understandable: Sharks are big, dramatic creatures that have been permanently lodged in our culture as underwater killers since Jaws.

They also kill about six people in a given year.

Snakes, on the other hand, kill roughly 100,000.

After mosquitoes, which spread diseases like malaria, […]