The Ultimate Book of Sharks is a fact-filled and photo-heavy offering of facts and information about these creatures. Author ...

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he wrote in his book Tales of ... Society Grant Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund this project. Glenn Hodges wrote about oceanic whitetip sharks in the August 2016 issue.

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.

A version of this story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... that they live in one of the world’s largest shark sanctuaries. In 2012 the Cook Islands became ...