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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

One of the world’s busiest whale-shark destinations is struggling to manage a boom in ecotourism. A new USF study finds the world’s biggest fish may be paying the price.

Conservation of whale sharks is fraught with challenges, including targeted hunting, accidental entanglement in fishing nets and changing sea temperatures. However, what ranks way above these ...

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 ...

Every December, hundreds of humpback whales arrive at Bahía de Banderas, a warm and turquoise bay nestled along Mexico’s western coast, right where the states of Jalisco and Nayarit meet. Following a ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest fish in the world and are endangered but are hard to study because they’re largely solitary creatures that roam great distances. There are only about 30 ...

A calm swim, maybe a glimpse of a fin slicing through turquoise water. But nothing prepared me for the moment I looked down ...