One of only three filter-feeding shark species, basking sharks eat tiny organisms called zooplankton. Swimming with their three-foot-wide mouths agape allows them to take in water and filter out ...

Everyone's favorite prehistoric shark may have been much sleeker and much larger than previously thought. A new study ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

Researchers refined their size estimates of the prehistoric shark by studying the bodily proportions of 165 other shark ...

Few divers would give up the chance to swim with the two largest fish in the sea—whale sharks and basking sharks. Here's ...

Appendix II trade protections have previously been achieved for a number of shark and ray species, including basking and whale sharks in 2003; great white sharks in 2005; oceanic whitetip, smooth ...

The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, ...