On its 50th anniversary, ‘Jaws’ continues to provoke shark conservationists

Mongabay
Jun 18, 2025, 11:51 am100 pts
The movie Jaws, released on June 20, 1975, was one of the very first Hollywood summer blockbusters, and remains one of the highest-grossing films of all time, adjusted for inflation. Its dramatic tension comes from a series of attacks by a massive shark in a fictional New England beach town. And yet, in the…

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