During the Jaws era, the Carcharodon carcharias was known as the great white shark. Taxonomists had a problem with this ...

Contender, a male great white shark measuring nearly 14 feet long, is the largest ever tagged and studied among the Northwest Atlantic white shark population, according to researchers.

The largest kind of shark is called the whale shark, which has been known to get as large as 60-feet long, the Smithsonian Institute said. Whale sharks feed on planktonic organisms including krill ...

The 'Jaws' shark was 20 feet long in the book and 25 feet long in the movie. Could a shark this big be swimming off Georgia's shore?

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 ...