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 ...

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.

E. Perceval Wright's interesting article on the basking shark, Selache maxima (NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 313), which I read with much pleasure, and on which I would beg to offer a few observations ...

and in Basking Sharks: The Slaughter of BC’s Gentle Giants, greedy European immigrants extirpate a rare and harmless species of charismatic megafauna. In both cases, however, the stereotypes ...

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has listed the basking shark as a vulnerable species, with populations trending downward.

They are now protected under Ireland's Wildlife Act. The basking shark is a globally-threatened species, which faces a high risk of extinction. Basking sharks are one of the largest species of ...