Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1975, “Jaws” changed the movie industry. “Variety” magazine called the Steven Spielberg thriller about a giant great white shark terrorizing a resort town, ...

Last summer, a great white shark washed up on the shore of Nantucket, Massachusetts. When a family on vacation came across the beached behemoth as it flailed in the shallow waves, they made a ...

In 1916, five shark attacks along the New Jersey coast left four people dead and one injured. The rare inland attacks sparked panic, beach closures, and widespread media coverage. The events helped ...

Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss stand next to a shark with a hook piercing through it in a scene from the film "Jaws" in 1975. (Photo by Universal Pictures/Getty Images) When Jaws hit theaters in ...

To close out a summer of celebration around the 50th anniversary of the iconic "Jaws," the movie returns to theaters on Labor Day weekend. Its tale of how a great white shark terrorized a beach ...

I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter Benchley’s novel. The book and film terrified me. But I had been a ...