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

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

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

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

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

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

Our morbid fascination with white sharks’ ability to kill us drove the success of “Jaws” and, eventually, decades of “Shark Week,” Discovery’s annual TV marathon that always features ...