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.

The basking shark is a migratory fish ... Even as it hunts, it moves in a sluggish manner, dragging its flat body along the seabed, like a carpet. Affectionately known as the "couch potato ...

basking sharks, and whales move through the water, it has emerged that the megalodon may have had a slim body shape like a lemon shark, rather than a stocky body shape like a great white shark.

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.

megalodon had a body plan consistent with the vast majority ... such as the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) and basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), as well as many other gigantic aquatic vertebrates ...

In a world first, a basking shark is tagged with cameras. Speaking on Landward Dr Lucy Hawkes explained, “Basking sharks are big animals but they can also dive under the water and stay well out ...

Analysis of chemicals of fossilised teeth suggests that the giant shark’s body temperature was about ... platform of a massive shark, probably a basking shark, circling a cruise ship in the ...

A whale-watching tour off Southern California got a close-up look at a passing basking shark, which are rarely seen in warmer waters, a video shows. A Davey’s Locker Whale Watching boat spotted ...

It seems shark season has officially arrived in the UK. The North Wales coast - particularly Anglesey - is one of the locations where you might spot a basking shark, the second largest fish in the ...

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), according to a new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica last week. This is ...