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.

Just hours after attaching a tracking device to a rare basking shark off Ireland’s coast in April, scientists recorded what they believe to be the first video ...

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 large and monstrous basking shark can grow to more than 10 metres long, making it the second largest fish in the ocean. It has a huge mouth that can span more than one metre wide. Despite its ...

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

One of those sharks unfortunately washed up dead on a Cape beach earlier this week, as researchers responded to Wellfleet Harbor and took samples from the massive 6,000-pound basking shark.

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 ...

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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.