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

Even if you've never had the dangerous experience of encountering a great white up close, you likely recognize the shark from ...

“Any time you go to the beach you have a greater chance of tripping over a sand castle and dying, choking on the food you’re ...

Netflix's latest competition series features teams of divers vying to photograph the most sharks in exotic locations.

Fifty years since the release of Jaws, these photographers are showing a different, less frightening view of great white sharks.

Around 2010, white shark numbers around False Bay started dropping off, and the decline got steeper from 2015 on. By 2018, the great whites were gone. Exactly why the sharks vanished remains a ...

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

They’re looking for the typical prey that they would want to eat.” OCEARCH’s tracking of Contender has also provided valuable data about great white shark migration patterns.

In early 2025, OCEARCH, a marine research non‑profit, found and tagged a massive male great white shark off the Florida–Georgia coast near Jacksonville. Measuring approximately 14 feet in length and ...

Jaws' scared us stiff. Science is setting the record straight. What 50 years of research reveals about the ocean's most misunderstood apex predator.