Other recent shark sightings on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app include an 8-foot shark spotted in ...

Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are the largest species of shark. Although these animals produce eggs, they don’t lay them. Instead, the young hatch while still inside the female’s body and are born as ...

Whale shark eggs are the largest eggs produced by any living animal, though the extinct elephant bird laid even larger eggs. 2. A Baby Whale Shark is Called a Pup.

Whale shark eggs are about twice that size. The eggs develop and hatch inside the female. However, a whale shark egg found in the Gulf of Mexico was 12 inches long and 5 ½ inches wide. 6.

An orca pod in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico has devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks — the world’s largest fish that can grow up to 18 meters (60 feet) in ...

Whale sharks are the world’s largest shark, but only just – they have some relatively stiff competition. At 12.3 metres long, the basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus, comes in a close second.Then ...

Whale sharks are sharks, fish, not whales. They breathe water through their gills, but filter feed by sucking massive volumes of water into their mouths and eating the tiny fish, fish eggs, or ...

The largest known whale shark egg, found in 1953, was nearly a foot (0.3 m) long. The animal’s mating behaviors remains fairly enigmatic—courtship has only been observed off the Saint Helena ...

Whale watchers got a big surprise when they encountered two great white sharks in the water off the North Shore.

“The whale shark has the smallest brain compared to body mass. The brain is the size of an egg,” said Francesca Pancaldi, first author of the study and a researcher at Centro ...

It was a whale of a fail. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water park: A Chinese aquarium was ripped by angry fans after its much-hyped giant shark was revealed to be a robot ...