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

Fifty years since the release of Jaws, these photographers are showing a different, less frightening view of great white sharks.

This is the story of Walter Maxwell's world-record tiger shark, which he caught not from a boat, or in Australia, but from a ...

Cape Cod's white sharks are now tourist stars. Get a chance to meet them – up close, wild, and nothing like “Jaws.” Here’s how.

A Cape Breton lobster fisherman and his crew had the encounter of a lifetime this week when a 4.5-metre great white shark circled his boat just off Sight Point, N.S., coming close enough to ...

The great white shark is nearly always the focus of these films. Among the 500-plus shark species, great whites are only the sixth largest, but, some data suggest, are responsible for the most ...

Our human senses have evolved over millions of years to detect information important to our survival. Through a sense of ...

The Game of Jaws from Ideal, produced to tie in with the 1975 release of Jaws, was one of those nerve-wracking games, similar ...

When I first saw Jaws in the theaters as a kid — it opened across the U.S. 50 years ago, on June 20, 1975 — it terrified me.

Fortunately for any nervous swimmers, the shark didn’t linger. By the next day, it had likely found its way back out to open water, leaving only ripples (and viral footage) in its wake.