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, covering pets ...

National Geographic has partnered with Minorities in Shark Sciences Shark (MISS) for SharkFest, to encourage diversity and inclusion in the shark sciences field Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at ...

Shark sightings on the east and west coasts have been on the rise as Americans flock to beaches in hopes of cooling off. In Hawaii, a tiger shark was recently spotted swimming 30 yards from the island ...

Sharks get a bad reputation for being scary, and it's a stereotype that has been perpetuated for decades thanks to movies like "Jaws." Dr. David Shiffman, a marine biologist who studies sharks at ...

Sharks have called the Earth’s oceans home for hundreds of millions of years and adapted to thrive in harsh environments. While these top hunters of the deep blue have evolved to survive cold and dark ...

Sweet relief. Summer is here, and people around the nation can start enjoying the oceanside beaches they’ve been dreaming about all year long. Warm weather. Ice cream. Hot sand. Cool water. Time spent ...

-- 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You probably grew up with Shark Week and Jaws, so you think you know the score: don't swim at dawn, avoid chum, and if you see a ...

Movies have shaped the ways we think about sharks. But they often get even the basics wrong, from what they eat to how they act. Here are facts that "Jaws," "Finding Nemo," and "The Meg" got wrong — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. July 14 is Shark Awareness Day, and Nat Geo's ongoing SharkFest has plenty of shows to honor the day July 14 is Shark Awareness ...