Click through for more amazing baskingshark photos from the scientists.
2
We're welcomed to Cape Clear Island by a baskingshark.
3
Johnny had never encountered a baskingshark before so he didn't know what it was.
4
As I passed the baskingshark I surreptitiously touched its cold skin, rough as sandpaper.
5
In fairness, with the 407 it's more baskingshark.
6
A kayaker has captured some rare footage of a large baskingshark off the Donegal coast.
7
The baskingshark is a benign behemoth.
8
He hypothesizes the trip may have to do with reproduction, another area that has long baffled baskingshark researchers.
9
A baskingshark, she thought.
10
The big shadow stills among the meshes, and the baskingshark is towed to a corner of the cove.
11
A baskingshark has "jaws so large it could swallow you whole", one report would have you believe.
12
The first time Gavin Maxwell saw a baskingshark at close quarters was off the east coast of Skye in 1944.
13
The baskingshark takes centre stage in Wild Ireland magazine, the latest creation of the online wildlife education, web-broadcast, and information company.
14
The EU has been setting arbitrary quotas for baskingshark livers, without any knowledge or research on the status of the fish.
15
The baskingshark is a wondrous beast on which is bestowed a kind of eerie benevolence by virtue of its planktonic diet.
16
Yes, it takes a lot to kill a baskingshark -as Maxwell was to be reminded often over the following years.