In 1949, Canada’s fisheries department officially marked basking sharks as destructive pests, encouraging fishermen to kill them on sight. They even outfitted a ship called Comox Post with a blade on ...

A massive shark washed up on a Cape Cod beach this week, 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 ...

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 ...

Note: Before we get started, let’s define what pelagic actually means. “Right now, the word pelagic can be a little obscure”, he explains. “But it refers to the open ocean, so the offshore, high seas ...

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 ...

A menacing fin was seen off the coast of a Welsh seaside town. The beast was spotted just yards from shore near Porthcawl, in south Wales Residents were split over what type of shark had been sighted.