As summer kicks into high gear on the Fourth of July, Netflix is releasing a new series highlighting the beauty, importance ...

To researchers, the animals are hardly predatory villains; most are juveniles figuring out how to hunt. Encounters such as ...

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

Jaws' reignited existing fears of sharks. But it also inspired new generations of researchers interested in the apex ...

Jaws,” made real-life beachgoers a little nervous about jumping in the water but the blockbuster film actually launched a ...

West Tisbury teacher Lauren Serpa’s third-grade class recently presented a project on white shark conservation to a room full ...

This past weekend was flooded by “Jaws” and shark fanatics driven to the Island to celebrate five decades of the film. Hype around “Jaws” hasn’t waned since opening weekend in the summer of 1975, and ...

Released on June 20, 1975, Jaws chewed through the gritty, cerebral aesthetic of the “ New Hollywood ” of the late ’60s like it was a lone teenager taking a midnight swim—and left behind a thirst for ...

It had recently been tagged by Ocearch. At 13 feet, 9 inches, the shark is the largest male the group has tagged. According to Ocearch’s shark tracker, Contender was last pinged near North Carolina.

In 1916, shark research was in its infancy. Some scientists believed sharks weren’t capable of attacking humans at all. Others, like ichthyologists John Treadwell Nichols and Charles Townsend, ...