A shark seen swimming near Block Island all week has been identified as a basking shark. The Atlantic Shark Institute said basking sharks are not a risk to people. Basking sharks are not ...

It’s clear that this was a massive shark, but the ASI was quick to correct false theories in explaining that it was a harmless basking shark, not a potentially dangerous great white. The ASI ...

Atlantic Shark Institute executive director Jon Dodd says this is a basking shark that appears to be about 20 feet long with a large dorsal fin. Basking sharks are the second-largest fish species ...

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of "Jaws," a massive basking shark was spotted off the coast of Block Island in Rhode Island on Monday. Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, wherever you are.

“In this case, it was about a 20-foot basking shark,” said Jon Dodd, executive director of the Atlantic Shark Institute in Rhode Island. Dodd told 12 News on Wednesday that while the shark ...

But the scene is not from the 50-year-old blockbuster film about a killer shark terrorizing fictional Amity Island. And the short clip showing a basking shark in the island’s Great Salt Pond has ...

as researchers try to figure out what led to the shark getting stranded. It has already been a very busy year for basking sharks in Cape Cod Bay, and some ultimately wash up dead on beaches for a ...

A 20-foot shark sighting in Block Island's Great Salt Pond on Memorial Day, may 26, 2025, has been identified as a harmless basking shark that likely made a ...

Dreaming of living in a castle in the woods? A Tiverton house could make it come true A few Facebook users guessed basking shark, which feeds on plankton and are harmless to humans. Jon Dodd ...

Atlantic Shark Institute executive director Jon Dodd said the shark in the video is a basking shark, estimated to be approximately 20 feet long with a large dorsal fin. The basking shark is the ...

The shark seen in the pond is a basking shark, the Atlantic Shark Institute’s executive director, Jon Dodd, told WBZ-TV. He estimated the fish to be 20 feet in length. “They are harmless ...