Video of a huge shark swimming around Rhode Island's Block Island on Memorial Day is going viral. The video taken by Jen ...

A basking shark was spotted last week feeding in the ... and circular swimming along with eating behavior. It had been assumed aggregations were involved with mating behavior, but scientists ...

Even though the plankton-eating basking shark is the world's second-largest fish, much of its life has eluded observation. Now, however, researchers have determined that the usually solitary ...

Two of the biggest – the whale shark and the basking shark – eat mostly plankton. They swim slowly through the oceans with their mouths wide open, gobbling down whatever tiny organism swims ...

Despite eating an enormous amount of food ... Edgley has been passionate about shark conservation since a basking shark unexpectedly joined him on a 157-day swim he took around Great Britain ...

In an effort to collect more data on the creatures’ foraging and eating habits, McInturf and her research partners have tagged and strapped cameras to roughly 20 basking sharks. Then ...