The scariest imaginable moment at the beach — a shark attack — is stereotypically preceded by a fin-above-water sighting. Because of Jaws when we think of this fin above-water scenario, our ...

When we picture great white sharks, we tend to think of their razor-sharp teeth, their enormous size—up to nearly 20 feet long—their keen sense of smell, and perhaps the Jaws theme music. Their ...

A silky shark with a chunk taken out of its dorsal fin regrew much of its lost appendage, according to photographs taken of the fish nearly a year apart. Research describing the elasmobranch’s ...

'I see this eight-inch, fleshy, grey fin like come up next to her,' Bowles said of the close encounter Getty (2) Two paddleboarders had an alarmingly close call with a large shark. Margaret Bowles and ...

Have you heard about how finprinting is the latest thing in biometrics? No, we didn’t misspell fingerprinting: researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. have come up with a way to track ...

Two paddleboarders off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, had an unbelievable encounter with one of the ocean's top predators, and it was all caught on camera on the evening of July Fourth.

Ever since the movie “Jaws” came out over 40 years ago, the iconic image of a shark fin menacingly gliding through the water has inspired fear and panic in the public mind. But what many people may ...