Megalodons have been portrayed as gigantic great whites, but new research suggests they were more svelte and less agile ...

The largest kind of shark is called the whale shark, which has been known to get as large as 60-feet long, the Smithsonian ...

The ocean is home to some of the most awe-inspiring and terrifying creatures on the planet, and sharks reign as the ultimate ...

When Jaws first aired, scientists didn’t know how long sharks took to reproduce, or how many offspring a white shark could ...

A life-size reconstruction of the 6-foot jaws of Megalodon features real fossil teeth at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville.

Several books and a documentary mark the 50th anniversary of Spielberg’s iconic film, as scientists work to dispel the fear ...

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

D models of sharks reveal that their body shape scales with geometric precision, supporting a core biological law across size ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has ...

‘Jaws’ is still the king of all shark movies, but the subgenre hasn’t lost its capacity to surprise. Here, the best shark movies since Steven Spielberg’s classic, ranked.