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 ...

Miguel Aguíñiga Rodríguez, Baja California’s Secretary of Tourism, has announced the start of the whale shark observation season, running from June 1 to December 15 in Bahía de los Ángeles. The whale ...

On a calm morning in May, Brianna Beaulieu, a doctoral student in marine biology at the University of Western Australia, and several researchers from around the world boarded two research vessels ...

It turns out that the answer involves a custom-built tank, a cargo plane, and some very polite shark passengers. User @bybrenosantos_ joked that maybe the aquarium was constructed around the whale ...

A North Shore whale watch is having a heck of a start to the season. The 7 Seas Whale Watch out of Gloucester is on a heater so far, seeing more and more great white sharks in the northern waters.

The Georgia Aquarium on Thursday announced the loss of Taroko, a whale shark that had lived at the facility since 2007. “Taroko showed more than 43 million people the majesty of his species over the ...

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 ...

He was likely hunted by fishermen from the Gaza Strip or washed ashore. “Ofek,” the whale shark, died off the coast of Gaza on Friday, according to the environmental conservation organization Sharks ...

The legendary killer whale known as “Old Thom” is back. A group on a tuna fishing expedition off Massachusetts over the weekend spotted the well-known orca — leading to plenty of excitement from the ...