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.

Video: Shocking moment an endangered basking shark is struck by a boat in Ireland's National Marine Park is caught on camera - and scientists don't know if it made it out alive An endangered ...

After he stopped working as a doctor, he’d decided to devote more time to art, but even that seemed ... some Barbara Hepworth-style abstracts, and a basking shark. Until recently, there had ...

The large and monstrous basking shark can grow to more than 10 metres long, making it the second largest fish in the ocean. It has a huge mouth that can span more than one metre wide. Despite its ...

The basking shark, for instance, is typically 26 feet long and weighs ... two pounds of copper wire and a Florida license plate (where art thou, Florida man?). Some Sharks Can Live for a Very, Very ...

A wildlife ranger had a close encounter with a young basking shark in the St Kilda archipelago. The endangered animal, measuring almost 3m (9ft) long, was spotted at Village Bay on the island of ...

The results are published by Scotland's nature agency, NatureScot. Most of 2023's basking shark sightings were within the Sea of the Hebrides Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area. A similar ...

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 ...

The Shark MOU applies to seven shark species—basking, great white, whale, shortfin mako, longfin mako, porbeagle, and the northern hemisphere populations of spiny dogfish. As of May 1, 2014, CMS had ...

By Jillian Steinhauer Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act.

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.