Australian police have confirmed that a surfer who went missing was “taken by a shark” after search and rescue teams recovered a surfboard scarred with “bite marks” from the area of the attack. The victim – identified by Australian media as 37-year-old Steven Payne – was mauled by a shark while surfing at Wharton beach in a remote area of Western Australia,

A surfer in waters off the coast of Western Australia was killed by a shark Monday, and authorities have not yet been able to recover his body.

A shark, in all its raw, primal form, is exactly what it looks like: a predator. And for one Australian surfer, that truth hit with devastating force. Steven Payne, a 37-year-old surfer from Melbourne,