Summers have never been quite the same since June 20, 1975, and it's all thanks to a "mindless eating machine" that ...

Video of the event quickly went viral — a feel-good story with a hint of danger. But 50 years ago, during the same summer ...

Dr Harley Newton, chief scientist and veterinarian for OCEARCH, from Jacksonville, Florida, has dedicated her career to ...

One of the scientists involved in tracking Contender - the biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the ...

"Contender", the world's largest great white shark, is being tracked by scientists at OCEARCH, and the predator can now be followed on their fascinating Global Shark Tracker app ...

In early 2025, OCEARCH, a marine research non‑profit, found and tagged a massive male great white shark off the ...

Steven Spielberg’s Jaws opened across North America on June 20 1975, and immediately tapped into the primal human fear of ...

Although its rapacious great white shark appears only briefly on screen, Spielberg masterfully builds suspense through the interplay between what’s seen above the surface and what lurks below. Scenes ...

Fifty years on from the release of Jaws, it’s still not safe in the water… if you’re a shark. Steven Spielberg’s legendary ...

Dr Harley Newton, Chief Scientist and Veterinarian for OCEARCH, has spent her career studying sharks, including Contender, ...

The video was captured around the same time that a beachgoer was bitten by a shark on Hilton Head and had to be airlifted.

The transcriptome (or sum total of the messenger RNA) of the white shark showed greater similarity to the human transcriptome ...