“This basking shark may look like it’s smiling but sadly, it is not,” shark researcher John Chisholm wrote. “This poor individual stranded on a beach along Cape Cod Bay.

The basking shark is a 'bizarre, unstudied species,' says shark expert Chris Lowe. ... They have a huge mouth … it literally looks like a 55-gallon drum in the water,” Lowe said.

The key with identifying basking sharks is, ideally, to get close and look for large gills that almost wrap around their heads, Chisholm said. Their dorsal fins are also round, compared to the ...

Giant Sharks Swim Onto Species Watch List The basking shark, ... that's what the teeth of a basking shark look like," she says. Greg Skomal, a shark specialist with the state of Massachusetts ...

The basking shark is a 'bizarre, unstudied species,' says shark expert Chris Lowe. ... They have a huge mouth … it literally looks like a 55-gallon drum in the water,” Lowe said.

“Basking sharks are big harmless sharks that feed like whales,” he said. “They do look menacing,” Souza said, “because they have a fin that comes up.” Basking sharks, Souza said, are ...

SAN PEDRO (CBSLA) -- The basking shark is rarely seen but there have been recent sightings off the coast of San Pedro. In search of the rare sight -- which some say resembles a Loch Ness monster ...

Now it looks like basking sharks carry “road maps” of gourmet venues, taking the family along. Perhaps travelling together allows young kin to learn accurate navigation, ...

The sharks measured between 16 and 26 feet and swam with their mouths agape, ingesting plankton. “We just tried to make sure we didn’t look like plankton,” Gillespie joked.

In Northern Ireland, basking sharks have been protected under the Wildlife (Northern Ireland) Order 1985, which makes it illegal to intentionally kill, injure or harass basking sharks in UK waters.