When I was little, I saw a movie about shark attacks. It made me nervous to go into the water. I talked about that with my friend Nora Hickey. She’s a fish veterinarian at Washington State University.

He’s doing it for the sharks. Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh set out Thursday to attempt the first-ever swim around Martha’s Vineyard where the blockbuster movie “Jaws” was filmed 50 years ago. In so ...

Dusky sharks, a species previously thought harmless to humans, were confirmed to have killed a tourist in Israel. Analysis of the April incident in the journal Ethology concluded one “bold shark” ...

“Jaws” may have been filmed on the East Coast in Martha’s Vineyard, but real sharks have an incredible range. Sharks are found all over the world, inhabiting coastlines from the South China Sea to the ...