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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists say what is remarkable about the case, which was found the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico, is the shark's ...

In 2014, a remarkable encounter with a whale shark sparked a journey of discovery off the coast of Madagascar's Nosy Be. Little did marine enthusiast and researcher, Stella Diamant, know that this ...

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — 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 ...

A recent collaborative effort between the Gujarat Forest Department and the Wildlife Trust of India has led to the satellite tagging of an adult male whale shark (Rhincodon typus), marking the ninth ...

Documentation of scarring patterns on marine megafauna provides a means of quantifying the risk of anthropogenic threats that occur in the open ocean, such as ship strike. This study investigated the ...

The majority of whale sharks in a marine tourism hotspot off Indonesia have human-caused scars, according to a new study. Photo from NOAA, UnSplash The majority of whale sharks in a global tourism ...

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — 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 ...