Climate change may also affect plankton numbers. As a slow-growing species that produces very few young, basking sharks are particularly vulnerable to extinction, which is why the animal is listed ...

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

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Despite its ferocious appearance, the basking shark is a type of filter-feeding shark and mainly feeds on plankton. It swims with its mouth open and catches whatever goes through it. When water ...

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Just hours after attaching a tracking device to a rare basking shark off Ireland’s coast in April, scientists recorded what they believe to be the first video ...

Perry Long said they later confirmed they were basking sharks—large ... you know, shrimp or plankton," he said. Curious, the sharks took 10 spins around the boat before swimming off.

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.

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.