Contender, a 13.8-foot and nearly 1,700 pound great white shark was initially tagged on Jan. 17 off the Florida/ Georgia coast. He has since traveled north into waters off Hilton Head Island.

Editor’s note: This post looks back to 2012, when the accompanying image was captured on a Mexican beach, at a time when it was not widely known that adult great white sharks inhabited the Sea ...

A massive, 1,400-pound great white shark, nicknamed Breton by OCEARCH scientist, continues hanging around Florida waters and surfaced again Wednesday, right after a winter storm blanketed the ...

Thirteen years ago, an enormous great white shark sprawled on a beach near Guaymas, Mexico, on the mainland side of the Sea of Cortez, quickly became a spectacle. Commercial fishermen Guadalupe and ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great white shark. As per Reuters, the fossilized remains were unearthed from ...

LIMA (Reuters) -Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean ...

The shark is believed to be an ancestor of the great white shark. It is now extinct, but its teeth once spanned up to 8.9 cm in length, while adults could grow to near seven meters in length ...

The shark is believed to be an ancestor of the great white shark. It is now extinct, but its teeth once spanned up to 8.9 cm (3.5 inches) in length. Listen to Story A person gestures next to a fossil ...

LIMA – Paleontologists in Peru on Jan 20 unveiled a nine million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it ...

like carpet sharks and nurse sharks, use their powerful lips and mouths to suck prey out of hiding places. Even the fearsome great white may do this. The great white sharks — the world's largest ...