Whale sharks shouldn't be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived. They are found in warm oceans all ...

Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are the largest fish in the world. They can trace their ancestry to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, 245–65 million years ago, and are members of the ...

Marine biologists have documented the first case of a whale shark surviving with a severe spinal deformity. The 20-foot whale ...

Recently, we dove deep on the world’s smallest shark (the dwarf lanternshark) and now we’re swinging to the other end of the shark size spectrum to look at the world’s largest fish. The whale shark is ...

Whale sharks shouldn't be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived. They are found in warm oceans all ...

At one of the world’s busiest whale shark sites, tourists are harassing gentle giants — drones caught the violations in ...

Large, beautiful constellations of the sea. Famous because of their speckled apperance and docile nature, they remain one of the most mysterious marine animals, particularly when it comes to their ...

Researchers have found that heavily used shipping lanes pass through crucial whale shark feeding grounds, posing a threat to this endangered species. Research published today (Wednesday 15 May) in ...

Suspected whale shark mating behavior also was reported in Australia and the sharks also gather in places like Mexico, the Arabian Sea and the Maldives, but that seems to amount to male harassment of ...