The gargantuan fish - which was thought to be 30ft long - was spotted by the captain of a boat tour in September close to the ...

While being towed, she gave birth to five live pups and one stillborn, all measuring between 4.5 and 6.5 feet: as large as a full-grown whitetip reef shark. During the 20th century, basking sharks ...

A 30-FOOT SHARK with a 5ft fin has been spotted swimming yards off the UK coast – with locals warned not to “go anywhere near ...

The appearance of a basking shark off the Northumberland Coast has been described as a "bit of a mystery". The gargantuan fish was spotted in September by a boat tour close to the Farne Islands. It ...

Great hammerhead sharks are gravid for about 11 months, then they can give birth to as many as 55 pups ... is it the largest ...

The basking shark, for instance, is typically 26 feet long and weighs ... But asexual reproduction among sharks has a downside. They only produce one pup rather than a full litter. It's still a good ...

Sandtiger shark pups sometimes eat their litter mates after ... Currently, the world's largest live-born babies come from megamouth and basking sharks, both of which are lamniforms.

Scotland’s west coast seas are internationally important for whales, dolphins and harbour porpoise – collectively known as cetaceans – and the globally endangered basking shark. Sighting ...

The results are published by Scotland's nature agency, NatureScot. Most of 2023's basking shark sightings were within the Sea of the Hebrides Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area. A similar ...

State bodies like the Land Development Agency are “sucking up” spatial planners “like a basking shark”, a construction industry conference heard on Tuesday, leaving local authorities and ...

The 30ft-long basking shark was seen off the coast of Northumberland ... He said he has also spotted dolphins and seal pups off the Farne islands this year. None of the other animals living ...