Two paddleboarders accidentally got up close with a great white shark while 100 yards offshore of a Cape Cod beach. Margaret ...

Don’t fear the fin: Great whites and humans are closely sharing California’s coastal waters Photographer Carlos Gauna captured this drone image of a shark swimming near people on floatation ...

While "Jaws" made people fear sharks, it's predatory humans — such as those in Mexico's shark fin trade — that sharks should ...

A 2021 study of 109 shark-related movies from 1958 and 2019 found that all but one had portrayed sharks as a potential threat to humans, with plot summaries emphasizing the risk of shark attacks ...

The ocean’s predator hierarchy has long been dominated by the great white shark, a creature feared for its size, speed, and ...

It also inflamed our fear of sharks as man-eating monsters, said Jennifer Martin, an environmental historian who teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – Hollywood has really done a number on sharks. “Ever since I watched Jaws, I’m like yeah I’m not going in the water,” says 11-year-old Broward County student Joseph Geren.

Now, though, many of them face unprecedented threats, from overfishing to climate change. But there’s a movement underway to protect sharks — and to change their public image, which suffered after the ...

A shark fin is tied with rocks to help it keep its shape as it dries. A new study of shark fins at markets made the surprising find that many were fished from coastal waters, not the high seas, as ...