To kick it off, here are 17 fun facts about sharks: 1.The goblin shark has the fastest fish jaws in the ocean. It's the only shark with jaws that extend forward — at the speed of 10 feet per second!

July 14 is Shark Awareness Day, and Nat Geo's ongoing SharkFest has plenty of shows to honor the day Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Sharks have always fascinated me. I find them to be one of the most intriguing animals in the animal kingdom. When I'm not in the ocean, that is. When I am swimming along in the great blue sea, I hope ...

-- Shark bodies are made of cartilage (not bone) - a strong, flexible tissue. (You have cartilage in your nose and ears.) -- Sharks date back more than 400 million years - a lot longer than dinosaurs ...

The movie Jaws was first released 50 years ago in the summer of 1975. In the film, a vicious shark terrorizes a New England town by snatching swimmers from the ocean. Although the town's mayor ...

“The Jaws Effect” is what scientists call people’s irrational fear of sharks based on Steven Spielberg’s 1975 hit summer movie, “Jaws.” The great white shark in the movie was so terrifying that it ...

A large great white shark by the name of Breton visited Juno Beach just after midnight on Monday, July 15. Nicknamed by the OCEARCH scientists who tagged him in 2020, the shark pinged their trackers ...

Although these huge sea creatures are called ‘whale sharks’, they are not actually whales, but filter-feeding sharks, often referred to as "gentle giants". They are also the world’s largest fish, ...

Despite their fearsome reputation, the great white shark is listed as a Vulnerable (VU) species by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), primarily due to hunting (for fins and ...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Hollywood has really done a number on sharks. “Ever since I watched Jaws, I’m like yeah I’m not going in the water,” says 11-year-old Broward County student Joseph Geren. It is a ...

July 14 is Shark Awareness Day — the perfect time to learn about these undersea creatures. Those looking to be immersed in exciting knowledge about sharks are in luck. Nat Geo is in the midst of ...

* There are more than 350 species, ranging in size from the spined pygmy (seven inches long) to the whale shark (up to 50 feet long). * Their bodies are made of cartilage (not bone) -- a strong, ...