A shark expert, whose own curiosity about these fascinating fish was sparked by the movie "Jaws," explains some of their ...

When “Jaws” debuted in U.S. theaters 50 years ago today, it helped launch a new era in American movies. Steven Spielberg’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 ...

Steven Spielberg's Jaws opened across North America on June 20, 1975, and immediately tapped into the primal human fear of ...

More people are bitten by humans in New York than by sharks in the entire world. Sharks’ perception as bloodthirsty monsters, ...

Based on the best-selling book by Peter Benchley, “Jaws” sparked a surge of interest in studying the ancient apex predator — ...

Zanuck and David Brown originally considered using a real great white shark with the help of animal wranglers, it soon became ...

Summers have never been quite the same since June 20, 1975, and it's all thanks to a "mindless eating machine" that ...

When Jaws first aired, scientists didn’t know how long sharks took to reproduce, or how many offspring a white shark could ...

Jaws remains the greatest shark movie ever made, but plenty of other shark flicks have figured out a way to escape the shadow ...

It also inflamed our fear of sharks as man-eating monsters, said Jennifer Martin, an environmental historian who teaches at ...