Shark Week 2011 Preview

When is Shark Week 2011? Schedule, Promos Shark Week 2011 begins on July 31, and runs until August 5. Brace yourselves for some serious shark action as the Discovery Channel dedicates a whole week to everyone's...

Surfer Rescues Beached Great White Shark, Then Goes Surfing

It's Shark Week: Surfer Rescues Great White with Help From Bold Beachgoer A surfer found a great white shark stranded on Hungry Head Beach in New South Wales, Australia. Their positions reversed for a change, he...

Shark Yourself for Shark Week

Shark Yourself: Become a Disturbingly Hideous Sea Creature for Shark Week It's that festive time of year: Shark Week. The Discovery Channel brings us a series of shark-centric programming, complete with footage of...

Great Whites off Cape Cod: Beaches Closed

Great Whites Spotted off Cape Cod: Not a Shark Week Stunt Nearly a dozen great white sharks were spotted of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, during the past week. Swimming is banned indefinitely at South Beach and Chatham...

Shark Side of the Moon: Remixing Shark Week

I love Shark Week, I'm not gonna lie to you. Even though the science is sketchy at best, and even though each special crams people's life-or-death struggles with mother nature's ultimate "strong, silent type", I...

Nurse Shark Left Abandoned on Overton Street in Miami, Florida

A brown nurse shark was found dead on a Miami street Tuesday.  Local police believe that someone left the nurse shark on Overton Street in Miami after failing to sell it at a local fish market....

Oh Shark Week-What Happened to You?

Sigh. It's come down to this. We all knew it would eventually, and here we are. Last nights Shark Week show was...scratch that, could have been...scratch that. We don't even know where to start with last nights show "How Not to Become Shark Bait". Overall some great...

Shark Week: A Disservice?

Watching this year's 20th anniversary of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, world-renowned marine biologist and shark researcher Samuel Gruber was shocked to see every myth about the shark's violent nature come...

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