Marine researchers are investigating the death of a basking shark that washed up recently in Wellfleet. Here's what we know.

Even though it's the heart of winter, sharks are still in our frigid waters. One of those sharks unfortunately washed up dead ...

The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly translates to “great-nosed sea monster” in Greek. In reality, these placid sharks, found the world over, are totally harmless.

E. Perceval Wright's interesting article on the basking shark, Selache maxima (NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 313), which I read with much pleasure, and on which I would beg to offer a few observations ...

Tiger sharks are typically thought to inhabit in the Caribbean seas and Pacific islands, but they are clearly lurking off the ...

A basking shark has been spotted in a UK marina. The second largest fish in the world was photographed at Torquay, in Devon. RNLI volunteers that saw the shark on Wednesday, estimated it was ...

The only known adequate biological producer of squalene in the northern hemisphere is the basking shark, and since the adults are large, some being well over 30 ft. long, the difficulty of ...

They use more than 5,000 gill rakers to strain 25 kg of plankton from around 1.5 million litres of water per hour which is around the size of a swimming pool Basking sharks are found across the globe.

MORE Footage captured by local fisherman Michael O’Malley of the visiting basking sharks can be seen on the Achill Tourism ...

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