Diners at a restaurant on Block Island spot a giant shark swimming around behind a small boat in the Block Island Salt Pond.

Fifty years after her husband's book, the matriarch of the Benchley family talks about Jaws' legacy of shark protection.

Their decades of ocean conservation work is part of a new documentary Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story, celebrating the film that was the first real summer blockbuster, and preyed upon both our ...

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

Like the killer great white shark, the “Jaws” theme song took a big bite out of movie history.. The terrifying two-note theme of the 1975 summer blockbuster — which turns 50 on June 20 ...

Jaws' scared us stiff. Science is setting the record straight. What 50 years of research reveals about the ocean's most ...

Before the fictional story of a killer shark terrorizing a sleepy beach town, there was the very real summer of 1916 at the ...

Looking back, I guess the timing of my parents taking us three kids on vacation to the beaches of Wildwood, N.J. for a week could have been better. It was early Summer 1975 and we had just seen ...

In the original novel, the Jaws shark was 20 feet long. Around 1 hour and 23 minutes into the movie, a boat crew hunting for the shark spots it and Matt Hooper (played by Richard Dreyfuss) says ...

The shark in 'Jaws' is 25 feet long. Are there really sharks that big off the Cape? What beaches did "Jaws" film at? Some of them are in Massachusetts.

But things have changed dramatically off Cape Cod. After a 70% decline by the 1970s due to overfishing, white sharks are rebounding thanks to legal protections enacted in the 1990s, and a booming ...