Its gaping mouth has six rows of teeth in its upper jaw, and nine rows below, for a total of about 1,500 tiny, hooked teeth. The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly ...

The ranger added : "It was clearly feeding, occasionally closing its mouth to swallow microscopic ... it was a young animal - the second young basking shark to be spotted off St Kilda in the ...

Chrys Mellor photographed a basking shark swimming off the coast of Flamborough Head, near Bridlington A basking shark, the world's second largest fish, has been spotted off the Yorkshire coast.

Carmel sounded frightened when they watched the first basking shark swim past their 18-foot ... face of one of the sharks and claimed that its mouth was 'wide open.' The six sharks did not cause ...

In a world first, a basking shark is tagged with cameras. Speaking on Landward Dr Lucy Hawkes explained, “Basking sharks are big animals but they can also dive under the water and stay well out ...