basking sharks eat tiny organisms called zooplankton. Swimming with their three-foot-wide mouths agape allows them to take in water and filter out plankton using gill rakers, special organs that ...

Craig Whalley, from Onchan, came across the plankton-eating fish while exploring near an area known as Fleshwick, off the south coast. Often growing as long as a bus, the basking shark is the ...

Diet Basking sharks eat some of the smallest creatures in the ocean. They survive on a diet of plankton, microscopic plants and animals. They swim into the current with their huge mouths wide open ...