In 1916, five shark attacks along the New Jersey coast left four people dead and one injured. The rare inland attacks sparked panic, beach closures, and widespread media coverage. The events helped ...

In 1916, a great white shark attacked five people near the Jersey Shore. Library of Congress In the summer of 1916, panic struck the Jersey Shore. A shark sunk its teeth into Charles Vansant, the ...

The year 1916 was a fantastic summer on the Jersey Shore, if you liked the threats of war, polio, and a deadly attacker stalking the waterways. That was the summer that a series of strange, violent ...

"I felt the pressure of the bite." Marine biologist bit in head by shark in stunning attack: 'It was like being hit by a car' ...

I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter Benchley’s novel. The book and film terrified me. But I had been a ...

It’s summer, and that could only mean one thing—lots and lots of killer sharks. Not in real life, of course (they rarely attack), but in the annals of indie, low-budget horror filmmaking. Ever since ...

Teeth. Ocean. Predator. These are the three most common words used to describe sharks, according to a new global survey ...