The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

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.

New footage from Hawaiian waters shows something that should be impossible: unlikely companions sharing dinner without any ...

Trees first appeared on Earth during the Devonian period, around 385 million years ago, and dinosaurs about 100 million years later, between 250 to 200 million years ago. But you might be surprised to ...

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 ...

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 ...