How do crocs propel their massive bodies straight up into the air? Find out how coordinated crocodiles defy gravity with ...

Basking sharks were named in 1765 as Cetorhinus maximus ... Often shark scales have been compared to teeth due to their hard enamel structure. They are strong, but also due to their intricate shape, ...

People use their jaw and teeth to make trophies and their fins to make soup ... the decline of this species is also a good way of preventing its extinction. The Basking shark is an enormous, ...

Rows of teeth allow them to feed. They lack scales ... However, on the other end of the scale, the basking shark and frilled shark have gestation periods of three and 3.5 years, respectively.

We’ve all seen those menacing images of ferocious jaws bristling with teeth. However, let’s set the record straight: not all sharks are the stuff of nightmares. In fact, some are downright gentle ...

Marine researchers are investigating the death of a basking shark that washed up recently in Wellfleet. Here's what we know.

Diver Andrea Ramos Nascimento captured footage showing what it was like to be swallowed whole by a shark after a tiger shark swallowed her camera off the coast of Freeport in the Bahamas on Feb. 9.

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the discovery of an innovative method for dating ancient sediments.

A group of divers was feeding sharks in the Bahamas on Feb. 9 when one creature bit off more than he could chew.

One of those sharks unfortunately washed up dead on a Cape beach earlier this week, as researchers responded to Wellfleet Harbor and took samples from the massive 6,000-pound basking shark.

University of Staffordshire’s Professor Claire Gwinnett and colleagues have joined forces with Basking Shark Scotland to conduct four expeditions this September – and members of the public can ...