Despite not having bones, sharks can grow pretty large. There’s the aforementioned whale shark, roughly the size of a bowling ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of shark sizes, from megaladon to the dwarf lanternshark.

But shark attacks do still occasionally happen, so if you see a shark swimming toward you, here are the eight species that are most likely to try to take a (potentially deadly) bite. (It should be ...

There’s lots of hype around the largest shark to ever live ... We’re often asked whether we’ve got it wrong, and this famous shark is actually still alive? If we’ve only properly explored about 5% of ...

Contender has held the title of the largest male great white shark ever tagged by OCEARCH in the western North Atlantic since January. It weighs a staggering 750 kilograms and is almost 4 meters long.

Whale sharks, which can reach 15 meters (50 feet) in length, weigh up to 34 tons (68,000 pounds) and live for 80 years, are not dangerous to humans. They are found in tropical seas all over the world.

The 50-year-old original still looms large. And the sharks generally still look pretty fake. Actually, if anything, the shark from Jaws, the on-set jankiness of which was famously responsible for ...

Deep Blue: The World’s Largest Known Great White Shark Deep Blue was first spotted in the 1990s. However, it wasn’t until 2013 that underwater photographers caught her on video swimming around ...

OCEARCH clocked the shark at 1,437 pounds and 13 feet long, making it one of the largest in Florida at that time. Breton spent time swimming near Jacksonville before heading south to Daytona Beach ...

They are still being wired ... and physiological panic responses related to sharks and open water,” Dr. D’Arienzo shares. One of the biggest symptoms of shark phobia is anticipatory anxiety.

Among the many shark sightings reported off American coastlines, certain encounters stand out for the sheer size of the animals observed. This article delves into the quest to identify the largest ...