The "Jaws" poster depicted a different species, and the mistake went unnoticed for decades.

For more than half a century, the iconic promotional poster for the film "Jaws" ("Tiburón") featured a depiction of a shark species that was not actually a great white, despite the image becoming permanently associated with the cinematic emblem of fear in the ocean.

The revelation regarding the long-overlooked error was recently highlighted by National Geographic, showing how the inaccuracy went unnoticed by the public and industry experts for decades following the film's release.