During the Jaws era, the Carcharodon carcharias was known as the great white shark. Taxonomists had a problem with this ...

The 'Jaws' shark was 20 feet long in the book and 25 feet long in the movie. Could a shark this big be swimming off Georgia's shore?

The largest kind of shark is called the whale shark, which has been known to get as large as 60-feet long, the Smithsonian ...

Seven miles off the Massachusetts coast, Martha’s Vineyard is one of the purest examples of set-jetting, the travel trend ...

Before shark science got high-tech, WHOI helped blow up the shark in ‘Jaws.’ Fifty years later, WHOI researchers are changing ...

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

A: Though Spielberg shot “Jaws” on Martha’s Vineyard, off Cape Cod, it was the neighboring island, Nantucket, that inspired ...

As a groundbreaking critical and commercial success that has now been around for five decades as of this year, I did not ...

As the Fourth of July holiday approaches and families are planning beach time, some people on Long Island have lingering ...

In Jaws, the shark gets most of the attention but the real fight happens between two men on the same boat. Quint has spent his life hunting sharks with nothing but instinct and grit.

The film’s release in 1975 haunted the reputation of sharks worldwide. But a generation of scientists helped to turn the tide ...

When author Peter Benchley’s 1974 book was going to print, he needed to choose a title. He has juggled various titles — ...