To kick it off, here are 17 fun facts about sharks: 1.The goblin shark has the fastest fish jaws in the ocean. It's the only shark with jaws that extend forward — at the speed of 10 feet per second!

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. Her work has ...

Trees first appeared on Earth during the Devonian period, around 385 million years ago, and dinosaurs about 100 million years later, between 250 to 200 million years ago. But you might be surprised to ...

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 ...

Need Shark Week books or books about sharks for any time of year? You probably want to read the best picture books, chapter books, middle grade, and nonfiction books about sharks to learn as much as ...

Sharks are the apex predators of the oceans, but they’re more than movie monsters and beach horror stories. There’s a lot that most people don’t know about sharks and plenty more that scientists are ...

Aquarium Teen Programs Coordinator Austin shares some tells us about the species of sharks the Aquarium cares for and how we can all protect these animals in the wild. Aquarium Teen Programs ...

July 14 is Shark Awareness Day. Sharks are some of the most beautiful creatures in the ocean, but due to overfishing and other factors, many species are in danger. An estimated 100 million sharks are ...

Let’s be honest: Sharks seem like the closest you can get to real-life blockbuster monsters. They may not quite live up to the legend of “Jaws,” but with great whites growing up to 20 feet long and ...

Discovery's Jason Momoa-hosted Shark Week continued its cavalcade of carnage as the network devotes a week's worth of programming to all things toothy. Here's what we learned from Tuesday night's ...