Whale sharks are the largest species of shark. Their gentle manner and massive size make them the gentle giants of the ocean. However, one especially large whale shark has been spotted off the Pacific ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Whale shark scientist reporting for duty. Credit: Jisu Sheen photo Inventive typography. Leon Noel ...

How can a creature of such enormous size and long-distance migratory behavior cope with a spine twisted in multiple directions? (Whale shark with the spinal deformity not pictured.) Photo by Jenna ...

An enormous whale shark can be seen feeding on a bustling school of anchovies off the coast of Hawaii in new, rare video, which researchers captured while conducting fieldwork around the island of ...

* There are more than 350 species, ranging in size from the spined pygmy (seven inches long) to the whale shark (up to 50 feet long). * Their bodies are made of cartilage (not bone) -- a strong, ...

A whale has been found washed up on a California beach, covered in shark bite marks. The whale, thought to possibly be a northern right whale dolphin, was found on Sunday evening on Sunset Beach in ...

The death of sperm whale that had beached itself on a sandbar off Venice Beach, Florida March 10 led to an interesting great white shark encounter with a boat a week later. After a necropsy was ...