In the decades before “Jaws,” white sharks weren’t considered to be among the ocean’s most fearsome predators.

As the blockbuster film "Jaws" turns 50, recent shark attacks are making headlines as experts share that increased sightings ...

The transcriptome (or sum total of the messenger RNA) of the white shark showed greater similarity to the human transcriptome ...

Fifty years after "Jaws" was released in the theaters, the power of sharks in our imagination remains undimmed.

After 450 million years of evolutionary history, shark populations are collapsing, and more than a third of shark species and ...

Steven Spielberg’s Jaws opened across North America on June 20 1975, and immediately tapped into the primal human fear of being hunted by a huge, savvy predator.

If you've ever swum in the ocean, chances are this thought has entered your mind: Could there be a shark down there? The fear, however irrational it may be, spread throughout an entire generation of ...

In Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel that Jaws is based on, the shark is 6 metres long. For added screen excitement, in the movie it grew to a whopping 7.6 metres. However, that’s unrealistically large.

"Jaws" instilled a fear of the unknown as it villainized sharks and altered the public perception ... Here's where the shark carried out some of its attacks: Bruce, the mechanical great white ...

But the anti-shark propaganda had been brewing ... and Benchley have expressed regret in the past over how "Jaws" impacted the public perception of sharks. Steven Spielberg waits for the crew ...