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.
E. Perceval Wright's interesting article on the basking shark, Selache maxima (NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 313), which I read with much pleasure, and on which I would beg to offer a few observations ...
A 10ft shark has been spotted lurking in a Cornwall harbour, causing children to start screaming as they rushed out of the ...
Very little is known about basking sharks but that’s about to change, thanks to a pioneering team of scientists and some underwater cameras. The waters south of Tiree in the Inner Hebrides are ...
The basking shark, for instance ... Sometimes a tiger shark gives birth to two babies. Some Sharks Have to Keep Moving Are sharks the predator that never sleeps? Kind of. Some sharks have to ...
A basking shark has been spotted in a UK marina. The second largest fish in the world was photographed at Torquay, in Devon. RNLI volunteers that saw the shark on Wednesday, estimated it was ...
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.
The basking shark is now protected under the Wildlife Act in Ireland From Monday, it is an offence to hunt or injure a basking shark (without permission or licence), wilfully interfere with or ...