A massive shark has washed up on a Scottish beach in heartbreaking photos. Peter MacDonald, a retiree and wildlife photographer, spotted the 12ft basking shark at Moray Beach in Portgordon, Scotland.

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 ...

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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 ...

Many sharks and rays are known to breach, leaping fully or partly out of the water. In a recent study, colleagues and I reviewed research on breaching and ranked the most commonly hypothesized ...