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.

New research suggests that the prehistoric megalodon, the biggest shark known to have existed, was even larger than we ...

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.

One of those sharks unfortunately washed up dead on a Cape beach earlier this week, as researchers responded to Wellfleet ...