A whale watching tour was surprised with what organizers called a “once-in-a-lifetime” shark sighting on Friday afternoon off the coast of Newport Beach. According to Davey’s Locker Whale Watching, ...

One of only three filter-feeding shark species, basking sharks eat tiny organisms called zooplankton. Swimming with their three-foot-wide mouths agape allows them to take in water and filter out ...

Despite its ferocious appearance, the basking shark is a type of filter-feeding shark and mainly feeds on plankton. It swims with its mouth open and catches whatever goes through it. When water ...

The basking shark is a relatively gentle species, known for skimming the ocean’s surface for tiny planktonic crustaceans with ...

Lasting four days, each trip will leave from Inverness in Scotland and focus on monitoring microplastic pollution in feeding sites of endangered basking sharks. “This is a unique opportunity to ...

They swim into the current with their huge mouths wide open ready to feed. Did you know? Despite their size and appearance Basking sharks do not pose a threat to humans. However, it is not ...

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.