For the first time, scientists have quantified how many deep-sea squid short-finned pilot whales in Hawaiʻi need to eat to ...

Two decades ago, India’s whale sharks were hunted and misunderstood. Today, thanks to an ambitious conservation effort led by ...

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One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the ...

Ruthless orcas have been caught on camera killing young great white sharks by flipping them upside-down in the Gulf of ...

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Sharks have all the senses humans have – along with additional senses that enable them to detect electrical signals and vibrations in the water. Small pores on a shark’s snout, known as ‘ampullae of ...

This family of divers made a selfless attempt to free an afflicted whale shark that had become entangled in large fishing rope, carrying inevitably fatal consequences. During a family vacation, ...

A new study indicates that deep-sea mining could threaten at least 30 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras, many of which are already at risk of extinction. The authors found that seabed sediment ...

A rare whale shark which thrilled Israeli beachgoers for weeks after making an unusual entry into the Mediterranean was caught and killed on Friday in Gaza. The whale shark—classified as an endangered ...

This Indonesian study analyzed 13 years of whale shark stranding data, revealing an increasing trend in these events Most stranded whale sharks (70%) were large juveniles, suggesting this life stage ...