Basking sharks are one of the world's largest and most elusive fish species. But off the Irish coast, these gentle giants swim so close to the shore you can nearly touch them. Word quickly spreads ...

An increase in basking shark sightings off the Irish coast has helped identify their “hot spots”, new research has found. Scientists from the Irish Basking Shark Group (IBSG) have analysed 46 years of ...

Ireland's waters continue to provide an important seasonal refuge for the endangered basking shark, according to a new study. Drawing on almost 50 years of basking shark sightings around the Irish ...

Hours after tagging an endangered basking shark off the coast of Ireland in April, researchers captured what they believe is the first ever video of a shark or any large marine animal being struck by ...

Ireland’s basking sharks and other warm-bodied fish face risks from overheating due to warming oceans caused by climate change, a study has warned. The new research found that warm-bodied fish such as ...

Researchers have captured what they believe is the first ever video of a shark or any large marine animal being struck by a boat. Hours after tagging an endangered basking shark off the coast of ...

SHARKS are not normally top of the list of concerns in Irish waters – but we do have a few species off our coasts. More than 40 different shark species live in Irish waters, but people ...

In a world-first, researchers have captured video of a basking shark, an endangered species, being struck by a boat off the coast of Ireland. The footage, obtained mere hours after tagging the shark ...

Basking sharks are one of the world's largest and most elusive fish species. But off the Irish coast, these gentle giants swim so close to the shore you can nearly touch them. Some Greenland sharks ...

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NEWPORT, Ore. – Hours after tagging an endangered basking shark off the coast of Ireland in April, researchers captured what they believe is the first ever video of a shark or any large marine animal ...