The Jaws Effect” is what scientists call people’s irrational fear of sharks based on Steven Spielberg’s 1975 hit summer movie ...

While they’re ubiquitous in pop culture, there’s one place where you won’t find great white sharks, and that’s behind glass.

A large great white shark by the name of Breton visited Juno Beach just after midnight on Monday, July 15. Nicknamed by the OCEARCH scientists who tagged him in 2020, the shark pinged their ...

That's not all. From great white sharks and megalodons to goblin sharks and sharks that glow in the dark, you'll find some ...

Whale sharks can grow as long as 40 feet and weigh more than 20 tons, which makes them about twice the size of most great white sharks. They do have teeth, but they don’t use them for eating.

Movies have shaped the ways we think about sharks. But they often get even the basics wrong, from what they eat to how they act. Here are facts that ... the average great white shark that we ...

The scientific name, Otodus megalodon, means "giant tooth," and for good reason: Its massive teeth are almost three times larger than the teeth of a modern great white shark. The megalodon shark's ...

And the rest is speculation,” says Skomal, who is also author of Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark. That said, Skomal did acknowledge that the facts presented would seem to ...

A 1,653-pound great white shark named Contender was again tracked off the Florida coast, this time on Valentine's Day. Contender is the biggest male great white shark ever tagged by the nonprofit ...

It's back! A massive, 13-foot, 1,400-pound great white shark, known for making a self-portrait of sorts, has surfaced again in Florida waters. The shark, nicknamed Breton by the OCEARCH scientists ...

With snowbird season well underway in Florida, North Atlantic great white sharks are looking to get in on the action. The large ocean predators have started their seasonal migration, leaving their ...