This strange deep-sea morphology already gives the cookiecutter shark a certain eerie aura, but its feeding habits are what truly make this a shark almost as scary as a great white. You might ...

The Jaws Effect” is what scientists call people’s irrational fear of sharks based on Steven Spielberg’s 1975 hit summer movie ...

Frilled sharks are usually found in the deep ocean, but this one popped up in waters off Japan in 2007. | Getty Images/GettyImages Whether or not they deserve their notorious reputation ...

Where they live: In every ocean around the globe ... Long portrayed in pop culture as scary beasts, real sharks are no Hollywood monsters. Sharks are a diverse group of mostly predatory fish.

Some underwater species, like sharks, are well-known ... people with just three drops. Scary. Though less than a dozen people ...

They do this by feeding on prey and sometimes by just being present and scary enough that ... such as sea turtles and sea cows, feed. Having tiger sharks nearby protects wide swaths of seagrass ...

Although movies about scary sharks are plentiful—think Open Water, Deep Blue Sea, The Shallows, and The Meg, to name a few—filmmakers have exploited numerous other terrors lurking beneath the ...

Hassie Harrison and Josh Heuston also star in Sean Byrne’s thriller about an Australian boatman who gets his kicks abducting ...

A heroic bystander leaped into the ocean to save a woman after she had been mauled by a shark at Gunyah Beach in Bundeena, Australia, on March 7 ...

Other cases involved boats, aquariums, or post-mortem bites. According to the National Ocean Service, sharks’ scary reputation isn’t based in reality. Out of 300 species of sharks, only a ...

Thirty-seven is a scary number, especially since summer ... in Progress in Oceanography warned that higher ocean temperatures were pushing shark species from the warmer, more sparsely populated ...