Jaws (novel) Jaws (novel) Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley struggled as a freelance journalist. Through a marketing campaign orchestrated by Doubleday and paperback publisher Bantam, "Jaws" was incorporated into many book sales clubs catalogues and
Epaulette shark been assessed as Near Threatened, as there it faces habitat degradation, destructive fishing practices, and over-exploitation by artisan fishers. In 2015, the behaviour of an Epaulette shark was filmed in detail by the BBC for the first episode of a new documentary series named "Shark", released around the 40th anniversary of "Jaws". The documentary shows an Epaulette shark's ability to walk over land, and its hunting behaviours in the ebbing tide. Epaulette shark The epaulette shark ("Hemiscyllium ocellatum") is a species of longtailed carpet shark, family Hemiscylliidae, found in shallow, tropical waters off Australia and New Guinea (and possibly elsewhere).