Basking sharks are one of the world's largest and most elusive fish species. But off the Irish coast, these gentle giants ...

Forrest Galante will introduce Shark Week 2026 viewers to the sharks of the U.S. in “Alien Sharks: Untamed America” ...

Moving at a speed of around two miles per hour, basking sharks can filter around 2,000 tons of seawater an hour. Unlike the two other filter-feeding sharks— whale sharks, the biggest fish on Earth, ...

A study of basking sharks found skin so abrasive it tore through researchers' gloves, and scientists think that unusual ...

The Manx Shark Foundation hopes to learn more about basking sharks often spotted around the island.

Frank Viscuso, a retired firefighter from Toms River, was in the right place at the right time to video a large basking shark at Seaside Park.

Until recently, the winter whereabouts of the basking shark has stymied marine biologists. But according to a report published online in Current Biology, the mystery has finally been solved. Behind ...

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Hours after tagging an endangered basking shark off the coast of Ireland in April, researchers captured what they believe is the first ever video of a shark or any large marine animal being struck by ...

A collision between a boat and a basking shark has been recorded for the first time, meaning either that researchers were lucky to capture the footage or that the incidents are more common than ...

The second largest shark species in the world is being spotted close to the Bay State coast, according to shark researchers. Many sharks and rays are known to breach, leaping fully or partly out of ...