This is incredible! This is an enormous shark, folks!” the Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch naturalist informs her wide-eyed ...

While being towed, she gave birth to five live pups and one stillborn, all measuring between 4.5 and 6.5 feet: as large as a full-grown whitetip reef shark. During the 20th century, basking sharks ...

The second largest shark species in the world is being spotted close to the Bay State coast, according to shark researchers. Multiple basking sharks were seen off Plymouth Friday morning. Shark ...

Basking sharks are listed as a protected species by authorities. It meant the startled fisherman had to alert the area's marine life foundation - CRAM - once he realised what he had caught.

The accompanying footage shows a massive basking shark alongside a Cape Cod whale-watching vessel on Thursday, and the excitement was palpable in the naturalist’s voice. “This is incredible!

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.