A first mate from New Hampshire recalled the moments he saw two large basking sharks off the coast of Rye Harbor.

The shark, as confirmed later by the institute’s executive director Jon Dodd, was a basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus). Enormous, yes, as they are the second largest fish in the ocean after the ...

“The species, which many guessed accurately, was a basking shark, the second largest fish in the world.” The basking shark was estimated to measure about 20 feet.

On a surprise bachelorette cruise and whale watch around the Isle of Shoals, the group spotted two basking sharks.

That shark was portrayed as being at least 25 feet long, and no real-life shark has ever been recorded as being that large. Secondly, the shark in Great Salt Pond was confirmed to be a basking shark.

The largest shark to ever live was likely the mighty megalodon ( Otodus megalodon ), which swam in prehistoric oceans from 23 to 3.6 million years ago and is now definitely extinct. Paleontologists ...

A bride-to-be was whale watching during her bachelorette party off the coast of New Hampshire, when the group spotted a ...

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

“The species, which many guessed accurately, was a basking shark, the second largest fish in the world.” The basking shark was estimated to measure about 20 feet.