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 ...

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

The shark in ‘Jaws’ became a terrifying icon. Universal Pictures via Getty Images Gareth J. Fraser, University of Florida The ...

Although Steven Spielberg’s epic “Jaws,” which turns 50 Friday, depicts unprecedented terror and calamity offshore in the ...