The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly translates to “great-nosed sea monster” in Greek. In reality, these placid sharks, found the world over, are totally harmless.

Marine researchers are investigating the death of a basking shark that washed up recently in Wellfleet. Here's what we know.

In a world first, a basking shark is tagged with cameras ... just be absolutely fantastic if we could understand the full life cycle.” Landward will share footage from the tagged sharks ...