Passengers and crew on a boat headed from Ventura to Santa Cruz Island spotted a 20-foot basking shark this week. Here's what to know.

This week at the Oceanarium, several people asked about a strange animal they saw off of Hampton Beach. They weren’t sure if it was a whale or a shark. After a little discussion, we determined what ...

With warm weather here and more people out on the water, great white shark sightings are rising around the region. There has been an “uptick” in confirmed white shark activity off the Bay State in the ...

A basking shark found dead on a Moray beach had eaten plastic, according to experts who examined it. The fish, which was more than 4m (13ft) long, washed up at Portgordon, near Buckie. Shark and Skate ...

Basking sharks are truly enormous – second only to whale sharks in size – and yet many people have never even heard of them. In this episode, we take a closer look at these gentle filter feeders, ...

Understanding basking shark behavior over a full year reveals how they adapt to environmental shifts and why that matters for ocean conservation. Basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) are the second ...

A North Shore whale watch is having a heck of a start to the season. The 7 Seas Whale Watch out of Gloucester is on a heater so far, seeing more and more great white sharks in the northern waters.

Sharks, diverse and vital for ocean health, range from gentle whale sharks filtering plankton to swift shortfin makos hunting prey. Bull sharks uniquely navigate both saltwater and freshwater ...

The second largest shark species in the world is being spotted close to the Bay State coast, according to shark researchers. Many sharks and rays are known to breach, leaping fully or partly out of ...