In the late 90s, a local businessman awoke from a dream that would change the face of the Grand Strand. In the dream, David Eliyahu saw tourists by the thousands walking through the gaping jaws of a ...

The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like. Most scientists have described it as a ...

Yeah, you’re definitely going to need a bigger boat. East Coast shark researchers fortunately had a better time than those in “Jaws” when they recently came across a nearly 3,000-pound monstrous great ...

The recent accidental catch of a “very large” thresher shark off Rhode Island was fortuitous in that the shark was safely ...

A large, rarely seen shark—possibly one of the heaviest of its species—washed up ashore in a location where it has never been recorded before. The 11-foot-long smalltooth sand tiger shark became ...

A great white shark described as “giant” appeared on a Cape Cod beach, and authorities took the unusual step of calling a flatbed tow truck to remove it. The discovery was made in Orleans, ...

Customers walk through the mouth of a giant shark created by sculpture artist Bob Duato at Jaws Resortwear in Garden City Beach, N.C. In the early 2000s, the Myrtle Beach area went through a frenzy of ...

A great white shark described as “giant” was found dead on a Cape Cod beach, and police took the unusual step of calling a tow truck to remove it. Orleans Police Department photo A great white shark ...

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