“The Jaws Effect” is what scientists call people’s irrational fear of sharks based on Steven Spielberg’s 1975 hit summer movie, “Jaws.” The great white shark in the movie was so terrifying that it ...
Did you know there are more than 500 shark species? Most people are only familiar with a few specific species, such as great whites, but the vast majority of sharks aren’t that large, nor are they all ...
The movie Jaws was first released 50 years ago in the summer of 1975. In the film, a vicious shark terrorizes a New England town by snatching swimmers from the ocean. Although the town's mayor ...
The biggest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic has resurfaced just off the coast of Canada – where he is plumping up on seals ahead of winter. Contender, a 14-foot beast, was tagged in ...
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Rick Clough spent some four decades fishing for lobsters and sea urchins off the Maine coast before spotting one of the ocean’s most recognized predators — a great white ...
A massive great white shark, newly tagged by OCEARCH, pinged off Florida.Find out where the shark was tracked.
Great white sharks migrate to the southern Atlantic waters during cold months for food. OCEARCH has tagged 126 great white sharks. Shark Week 2025 begins on July 20 on Discovery Channel. On the ...
On January 17, 2025, research group OCEARCH located and tagged a gigantic male great white shark, now known as “Contender.” The shark’s name honors the Contender Boats that OCEARCH uses for their ...
A 12-foot, 1,009-pound great white shark has surfaced off the Southwest Florida coast 22 times since Nov. 18, 2025.
A 12-foot, 1,000-pound great white shark recently tagged by OCEARCH scientists pinged repeatedly off the SW Florida coast.
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