Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 inspiration for "Jaws"—may be the lesser known bull shark." Biologists George A. Llano and Richard Ellis suggest that a bull shark could have been responsible for the fatal Jersey Shore attacks. Bull sharks swim from the ocean into freshwater rivers and streams and have attacked people around the world. In his book "Sharks: Attacks on Man" (1975), Llano writes, Ellis points out that the great white "is an oceanic species, and Schleisser's shark was caught in the ocean. To find it swimming in a tidal creek is, to say the least, unusual, and may even be impossible. The bull shark,
Land Shark (Saturday Night Live) Land Shark (Saturday Night Live) The Land Shark (also land shark, landshark, LandShark) was a recurring character from the sketch comedy television series "Saturday Night Live". The character first appeared in the fall of 1975 as a response to the release of the film "Jaws", and the subsequent hysteria over purported shark sightings. It was one of the most popular and imitated sketches of "SNL"'s first season. The Land Shark first appeared in a sketch entitled "Jaws II" on the Candice Bergen-hosted episode (season 1 episode 4), which originally aired on November 8, 1975. As narrated by Don Pardo (the