QUINCY - It was a close encounter with a massive basking shark off the coast of Massachusetts that Adriano Rodrigues won't soon forget. First seeing the dorsal fin, then wanting to do more than get ...

You're welcome: look at this awesome Basking Shark! They caught footage of him off the coast of San Diego, California, and it ...

Sometimes during whale-watching expeditions, another type of creature grabs the spotlight merely by showing up. The accompanying footage shows a massive basking shark alongside a Cape Cod ...

An unusually large visitor spent its Memorial Day in New England this year. Just in time for the 50th anniversary of "Jaws," a massive basking shark was spotted off the coast of Block Island in Rhode ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shark, Chisholm said on Feb. 12, "had no obvious signs of trauma." "A necropsy was performed but results from tissue samples ...

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 ...

A huge basking shark washed up on a Cape beach earlier this week. Credit: New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance/TNS BOSTON — Even though it’s the heart of winter, sharks are still in our frigid waters ...

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 ...

Imagine seeing almost 1,400 sharks gathered together in one area. That is a lot of sharks. So scientists wondered why they would all be bunched up in the same place. Turns out, it may have been a ...