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

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.

Much of what we think we know about great white sharks simply isn’t true. They aren’t merciless hunters, they aren’t always loners, and they may be smarter than experts have thought.

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 ...

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. This summer, we’ll look at three shark species with notorious reputations: tiger sharks, great whites and oceanic ...