The basking shark’s scientific name ... special organs that prevent their food from escaping through the gills. Scientists believe their teeth—which are not used in feeding—are instead ...

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

Just like we were once baffled by the idea of eating raw fish or even insects in Asia, in Iceland, it's common to eat basking shark or Greenland ... continent to import food, leading them to ...

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

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 ...

basking shark numbers did decline in our waters. "It's felt perhaps that they have sort of shifted further up north, following their key food source, this very particular plankton which prefers a ...

If you thought it was completely safe to swim in English seas, you may be wrong, and could encounter a seriously ‘dangerous' 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 ...

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.

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.