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

Video of the event quickly went viral — a feel-good story with a hint of danger. But 50 years ago, during the same summer ...

Amid a feeding frenzy of interest in the 50-year movie milestone, the island is celebrating and educating on all things ...

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

Hundreds of thousands who happily swam in the ocean, unthinking, before the release of the movie "Jaws" 50 years ago this ...

When the film premiered 50 years ago, movie reviewers hailed Steven Spielberg’s work as a masterpiece — most of the time.

One of the scientists involved in tracking Contender - the biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the ...

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

The largest kind of shark is called the whale shark, which has been known to get as large as 60-feet long, the Smithsonian Institute said. Whale sharks feed on planktonic organisms including krill, ...

Dr Harley Newton, chief scientist and veterinarian for OCEARCH, from Jacksonville, Florida, has dedicated her career to ...

In early 2025, OCEARCH, a marine research non‑profit, found and tagged a massive male great white shark off the ...

In 1975, the summer blockbuster "Jaws" popularized the idea of the killer shark — but humans pose more of a threat to the animal than they do us.