TV LEGEND: The inspiration for Fonzie jumping over a shark on Happy Days was because Henry Winkler's father pushed his son to tell the producers about using his son's water-skiing skills on the show.

Nantucket’s south shore became the setting for an unusual encounter when a veteran angler hooked a large great white shark while surf fishing. Elliot Sudal pulled the animal onto the sand and then ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Except, as you're probably aware, Shark Week is a Discovery thing and is back for its 37th year. Shark Week officially runs this ...

A spinner shark jumped out of the water at New Smyrna Beach in Florida, smacking a swimmer in the face. Darren Kaye was surfing the inlet when the shark headbutted him, knocking him off his board. He ...

The phrase “jump the shark” is often used to describe a moment in a television show when something so absurd happens that it causes a sharp decline in the show’s quality and credibility. It originated ...

Jumping the shark is a fun thing that happens in media when something just forgets in its entirety what the point of a series was, and goes so far off the rails that the track is no longer in the ...

You've probably never seen shark footage quite like this. Fly fishing Captain Mark Martin recorded video of his fishing group hooking a mako shark, and it subsequently breaching out of the water as it ...

A heroic Australian man has told of how he jumped into the Australian ocean to save a stranger who was being mauled by a shark. Blake Donaldson and his partner were the only other people at Gunyah ...

“Jumping the shark” refers to the moment when a highly regarded television show begins to decline in quality. The origin of the phrase comes from the Happy Days episode where Fonzie jumps over a shark ...