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 huge shark has washed up on a Scottish beach, leaving beachgoers in utter disbelief. The basking shark, sometimes known as ...

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 popular TikTok account has revealed that a number of 'dangerous' sharks have been spotted in waters surrounding England - and it's making people think twice before diving in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Basking sharks are an endangered species which are often spotted off the Ayrshire coast in the summer months. It is the second largest shark or fish in the ocean, after the whale shark.

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 ...