Whale sharks are the largest species of shark. Their gentle manner and massive size make them the gentle giants of the ocean. However, one especially large whale shark has been spotted off the Pacific ...

California sharks are welcoming their new queen: Basking sharks, the second largest species on the entire planet, have reappeared in local waters. The rare, 33-foot, 8,000 pound creatures last swam ...

In 1949, Canada’s fisheries department officially marked basking sharks as destructive pests, encouraging fishermen to kill ...

Recently, we dove deep on the world’s smallest shark (the dwarf lanternshark) and now we’re swinging to the other end of the shark size spectrum to look at the world’s largest fish. The whale shark is ...

It’s what sharks dream of: A massive easy meal. Lucky sharks were recently spotted chowing down on a basking shark’s liver off the North Shore, according to a local whale watch. The 7 Seas Whale Watch ...

There have been many shark sightings in Massachusetts in the past couple of weeks, but the latest one may take the proverbial cake. The largest tagged great white shark in the Atlantic Ocean has made ...

One of the scientists involved in tracking Contender – the biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the Atlantic – has revealed how to escape a close encounter. Contender, the 14-foot ...

Long before modern great whites prowled the seas, a colossal shark cruised the warm shallows off northern Australia. Its ...