During the Jaws era, the Carcharodon carcharias was known as the great white shark. Taxonomists had a problem with this ...

The white belly of a great white shark serves a surprisingly useful purpose.

As Steven Spielberg’s classic celebrates its 50th anniversary, Olivia Petter examines the impact its villainous 25-foot great ...

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 ...

When author Peter Benchley’s 1974 book was going to print, he needed to choose a title. He has juggled various titles — ...

As the largest predatory fish on Earth, great white sharks are already impressive, armed with up to 300 serrated teeth and weighing up to 5,000 pounds. Now, new research adds more intrigue to the ...

As summer approaches, a juvenile great white shark named Dold has today been detected off the Long Island coastline, marking the latest milestone in a months-long migration that has taken him up ...

A particularly scary documentary, 1971’s “Blue Water, White Death,” which featured a tense confrontation with aggressive white sharks, also helped shape our view of sharks as creatures to be ...

Our morbid fascination with white sharks’ ability to kill us drove the success of “Jaws” and, eventually, decades of “Shark Week,” Discovery’s annual TV marathon that always features ...

"Jaws" is swimming towards a major milestone: its 50th anniversary. Dive into these secrets about the Steven ...

Climate 50 years after ‘Jaws,’ sharks are in trouble Scientists are using the continued lure of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster to aid shark conservation efforts.