The theme music alone of the classic film Jaws is scary but the dramatic footage of the giant fish itself, albeit a ...

Around 2010, white shark numbers around False Bay started dropping off, and the decline got steeper from 2015 on. By 2018, the great whites were gone. Exactly why the sharks vanished remains a ...

Gregory is taking the risk because it’s the best way to see the ocean’s celebrity predators behaving naturally as they hunt ...

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 ...

The tapetum lucidum effect gives the wearers of such peepers incredible night vision, and it's found in a wide range of ...

It’s been 50 years since Steven Spielberg induced intense selachophobia — or galeophobia if you prefer — to a wide swath of ...

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

You may think that since sharks have noses, they use them for breathing. However, unlike mammals, they use them only to smell ...

“It changed all of our lives. I mean, none of us swim the same,” joked veteran actor Jeffrey Kramer in a local newspaper ...

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

When the summer of 1975 cracked open its jaws — on June 20, to be exact — a 27-year-old Steven Spielberg gave us a perfect monster: sleek, unstoppable and so deeply American it practically had ...

Off South Africa, a great white shark bypasses the bait and attempts to take a bite out of research equipment. "Needless to say, the experiment didn’t quite go as planned, but the results were ...