At a dock on Martha's Vineyard is the Orca, the boat from "Jaws." It's a replica, of course; the original one sank, weighed down by a five-ton man-eating shark. The guy next to the Orca, however, is ...

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For five decades, it hasn't been safe to go back into the water. Thanks, "Jaws." Since "Jaws," audiences have developed a deep hunger for these underwater antagonists – hello, Shark Week! – so we're ...

Richard Dreyfuss portrayed Matt Hooper, an oceanographer fascinated with sharks and hired by Martin Brody to help capture the great white. He is famous for starring in films throughout the 70s, 80s ...

"The basic result was that it took a while for these animals to adapt their jaws for a land-based diet," Anderson says. "They stayed essentially fish-like for a long time." It turns out that just ...

Scientists in California believe that the classic 1975 film “Jaws” led to a generation of galeophobics — people with an irrational fear of sharks. Psychologist Gabriella Hancock, who is working with ...

The yellow barrels. The haunting two-note score. The blood-red surf. We all know the movie. When "Jaws" hit theaters on June 20, 1975, it forever changed how Americans viewed sharks — sparking a fear ...

From co-starring in “Jaws” to enforcing the laws. Jonathan Searle has been named the new police chief of Oak Bluffs — 47 years after he filmed Steven Spielberg’s iconic shark shocker in the same ...

The mayor in Jaws watched as, one by one, his townspeople got devoured, but the survivors stuck with him anyway — cue the memes Larry Vaughn was the mayor of a small Northeastern town for several ...

The hottest beach read of 1974 almost came with a real shark tooth. Born May 8, 1940, in New York City, Peter Benchley had a love of the water instilled in him early on. His parents often took him to ...