Sharks.

Rhode Island residents woke up to an unexpected sight on one of their beaches. According to Daily Mail, a 28-foot-long Basking shark washed up deceased on the state's shore. The sea creature, which weighs several tons, was first spotted by a homeowner in Misquamicut beach, who reported the strange shark corpse to the police. The basking shark quickly attracted a crowd, with curious onlookers gathering to touch and take photos of the animal. Eventually the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management sent an expert ...

A group of high-school baseball players landed a rare and impressive catch while fishing in South Florida on Tuesday. The young men reeled in a half-ton great white shark, according to WSVN-TV. The teens, members of the Wildcats baseball team from Dunwoody High School in Dunwoody, Ga., were in Florida for a game, but were looking for something to do to in the morning before they had to play. Their parents chartered a boat for the kids to go fishing. "I wasn't expecting too much, to be honest," Logan Elliot told WSVN. ...

Tens of thousands of sharks have been seen along the southern coast of Florida, leading to beach closures from Boca Raton to Jupiter, according to the Daily Mail U.K. The sharks are migrating back north after traveling south for the winter. "We counted over 15,000 sharks less than 200 yards from shore," said Dr. Stephen Kajiura, an associate professor of biology at Florida Atlantic University who researches shark migration. "That's 1,000 sharks per square kilometer. If you were a swimmer, you would probably be within 60 feet of a shark." Most of the sharks are spinner sharks and blacktip sharks, but hammerhead sharks, tiger sharks, lemon sharks and bull sharks also have been ...