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

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

They’re harmless filter feeders whose diet consists of plankton, krill and fish eggs. Whale sharks can dive as deep as 2,000 metres, and after just 20 seconds, our first sighting disappears into ...

This is the astonishing moment a whale shark pup gulped down water from the sea's surface for its lunch. Footage shows the juvenile marine mammal with its mouth wide open as it fed on plankton off ...

Whale sharks feed from fisherman’s nets in the waters of Raja Ampat. ... more eggs are acquired from one of the many long boats that appear beside the Ombak Putih to replenish its stores.

They’re toothless, filter-feeding sharks that glide slowly through the water, feeding on plankton, fish eggs and small fish. “They are very graceful movers, very slow, and just beautiful to ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 can grow to 18m in length, but most that visit Ningaloo are juvenile males in the 3–7m range. Still, a creature that size is an imposing presence in the water, particularly when it ...