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.

It’s not clear whether the massive 23-foot (7-meter) animal, known as a basking shark, ultimately survived the collision. But ...

Scientists have captured basking sharks in the Inner Hebrides using the UK's first autonomous "SharkCam". Owned by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the underwater robot captures ...

Scottish sightings of basking sharks have fallen to their lowest level in 20 years, say conservationists. The sharks - the world's second largest species of fish after whale sharks - gather off ...

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.