John Chisholm, a shark expert with the New England Aquarium, noted that this year has seen a record number of filter-feeding basking sharks, the most in the last 12 years. Basking sharks ...

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.

Off of New England now, white sharks are beginning to come back because seal colonies are now coming back. In the 1800s, 1700s, in the United States, there were very abundant populations of seals ...

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.