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Sharks rarely bite humans. Here's how shark science is evolving over time.

Like many famous onscreen moments, Oppenheimer’s most memorable line was surprisingly unscripted.

‘Jaws,’ published in 1974, terrified the public of sharks, but it also brought shark research into the scientific mainstream.

Jaws , perhaps the most famous four-letter title in literary and movie history, was, according to Doubleday editor Thomas E Congdon, “the 237th name”...

Fifty years ago, a former political speechwriter saved himself from penury by writing a book about a rogue shark – and lived to regret it

If you were alive on January 1, 1974, you would be 18,262 days older when the most recent New Year's Day came around. At that time, the chances are you were

Twenty questions to get you thinking. The answers are below

Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss has a role in the shark thriller Into the Deep, co-starring Scout Taylor-Compton and Stuart Townsend

* Sweden has a ski-through McDonalds.

Peter Benchley’s classic 1974 ‘man versus beast’ blockbuster novel doubled as a scathing critique of 1970s America. Spielberg’s film made its characters likeable – and its tone into a ‘grand adventure’.