Passengers and crew on a boat headed from Ventura to Santa Cruz Island spotted a 20-foot basking shark this week. Here's what to know.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Some local fishermen thought they’d need a bigger boat Tuesday morning when they spotted a basking shark off the coast of ...

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 24-foot shark washed up on a United Kingdom beach over the weekend and a forklift was needed to haul the massive beast off the shore, wild photos show. The carcass of a basking shark — the ...

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 ...

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 ...