When Walter Maxwell hooked into a giant tiger shark from a South Carolina pier in 1964, onlookers were sure he'd lose the ...

This is the story of Walter Maxwell's world-record tiger shark, which he caught not from a boat, or in Australia, but from a Carolina pier.

I had been fighting a tuna for three hours off the coast of Bermuda when a 16-foot tiger shark appeared out of nowhere.

In 1975, the summer blockbuster "Jaws" popularized the idea of the killer shark — but humans pose more of a threat to the ...

Due to the presence of juvenile Great White Sharks last fall in the waters off Crane Beach, we will be introducing several ...

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

We’ve all heard of the world’s most massive sharks, both past and present. The megalodon, the great white shark, and the ...

These top predators eat smaller animals, balancing the populations of fish and other marine life. For example, sharks protect coral reefs by eating fish that graze on coral. Without sharks, these fish ...

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

As the blockbuster film "Jaws" turns 50, recent shark attacks are making headlines as experts share that increased sightings reflect better technology and more people in water, not more sharks.

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...

The beach was first closed in September 2024 after the Trustees said the Ipswich Harbormaster and marine biologist Greg ...