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 ...

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

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

The toothy villain of “Jaws” terrified audiences in 1975. But offscreen, the hit film — which is celebrating its 50th ...

A recorded decline can be relatively large if the starting population size is already small ... maintained and enforced to ...

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

The movie Jaws, released on June 20, 1975, was one of the very first Hollywood summer blockbusters, and remains one of the ...

As Steven Spielberg’s classic celebrates its 50th anniversary, Olivia Petter examines the impact its villainous 25-foot great ...

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

White sharks suffered great declines after the Jaws movie was released. But these iconic predators must be protected.

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