Amity Island, in the late Peter Benchley's 1974 bestseller "Jaws," appears to be a thinly-disguised Long Island.

Just when you thought it was safe to celebrate the 50th anniversary of 'Jaws' — here's the ultimate trivia trove ...

Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw all gave iconic performances in Jaws (1975), but the movie’s most memorable character might be the 25-foot-long killer shark. For most of the ...

O ne of the bravest acts in the original Jaws doesn't come from Chief Brody or Quint - it's the unnamed boater who tries to ...

Sound production is common among terrestrial animals like birds, bugs, and the oversharing coworker at the desk next to yours ...

Congdon told him to submit a one-page outline, for which Congdon was able to convince his superiors at Doubleday to pay Benchley a $1000 advance to continue working on what would become Jaws.

The Pensacola and Perdido Bay Estuary Program will use NOAA grant funds to locate the many sources of sediments flowing into Pensacola Bay. State studies indicate that 90% of sediments flowing ...

Each bay model may have one or more inflow points which correspond to natural drainages into the estuary. Model output includes time-varying depth and vertically-averaged horizontal velocity ...

Although monitoring is concentrated in the major estuaries, and even then the number of sites at which data are collected is small - two per estuary in most cases, the instruments provide an abundance ...

‡ Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Morehead City, North Carolina 28557, United States ∥ Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State ...

Jaws came out in 1975 and did more than just scare people. It changed how movies were made and how they were sold. It showed that a shark movie could be smart and serious without being silly.