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After watching the first episode of Jurassic Fight Club I felt that the show deserved some amount of praise , but I was utterly flabbergasted by the latest episode .

"Shark, shark, shark!!!" While such a blood-curdling call likely immediately calls to mind the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster "Jaws" about a rogue great white shark off the Cape Cod coast, the genesis for ...

Young "divers" enjoy the new shark cage at the Tennessee Aquarium. Even in print, the flashback to the summer of 1975 and the blockbuster movie, "Jaws" gets the heart racing.

Young "divers" enjoy the new shark cage at the Tennessee Aquarium. Even in print, the flashback to the summer of 1975 and the blockbuster movie, "Jaws" gets the heart racing.

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK was the title of a best-selling book back in the 60's. Being a novice at life at the time, I bought a copy.

Feeds Posts by Gregory McNamee via RSS Shark . English sailors surely knew scary representatives of the Selachii order long before the 16th century, but the fish seems not to have been named until 1569, when ...

Jaws AMC, 8 p.m. Give the man his due: Steven Spielberg's shark saga changed the face of movie entertainment.

Ask film historians - and industry bean counters - and they'll agree that the summer of 1975 marked the genesis of the Summer Blockbuster Movie season.

Our Critics Picks Our Critics' Picks THURSDAY 6/12 Just When You Thought It Was Safe... MOVIES @ MAIN: JAWS Is there a better time to dust off Steven Spielberg's 1975 movie version of the Peter Benchley novel - ...

“There wasn't a lot of material about them.”

Peter Benchley once said he could not have written "Jaws," his best-selling 1974 novel about a giant white shark terrorizing a New England beach town, if he knew then what he later learned. via The San Diego Union-Tribune

“It is a great sea creature from the deep. It makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck when you see something like that, with the legends and stories associated with it.”

Like many a fishy tale, the reputed exploits and scale of the colossal squid have not always been matched in reality, says the Nelson Mail in an editorial. via The Nelson Mail

“When sharks became target species for Asian markets in the 1990s, scientific data were available to combat threats to sharks - data which existed due to the fascination in sharks that Peter had generated”

Wendy Benchley, Matthew T. McDavitt and SRI President Stan Waterman Princeton, New Jersey The Shark Research Institute created the Peter Benchley Shark Conservation Awards to honor the memory of the late Peter ... via UnderwaterTimes.com

“If Mario Puzo were to argue about cracking down on organized crime, that would be hypocritical?”

Wendy Benchley, whose late husband gripped the attention of a generation of swimmers with a tale of a maniacal great white shark, is speaking out against a tournament she says glorifies killing the fish. via The Times

The movie generated a lot of interest but also fear about sharks. I think that one of the things that we've seen in the years since 'Jaws' is a reversal of that idea -- people understanding that people are far ... via Variety.com

A scientist with an out-of-control passion for sharks? Sounds like a third-rate Batman bad guy, but Rob Stewart is such a person, and even those outside the documentary film-fest bubble may have heard of this ... via Free Times

“Except in the rarest of instances, great white shark attacks are mistakes.”

A contrite Peter Benchley now says: "I couldn't write JAWS today." He's learned a lot about sharks lately, and he feels they're misunderstood: "Except in the rarest of instances, great white shark attacks are ... via The Cassandra Page

“I want Jaws, but without the shark.”

I expect you've been wondering where Tony Blair is. No? How quickly we forget how speedily we excise. via The Independent