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

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 ...

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 ...

The largest basking shark recorded was 40 feet long ... and circular swimming along with eating behavior. It had been assumed aggregations were involved with mating behavior, but scientists ...