Andrea Ramos Nascimento / Peter Strom / Aloha Divers Okinawa & Epic Diving via Storyful As one of the divers opened a crate of fish food to toss to the animals, one of the sharks continued to snap ...

Baby whale sharks remain one of the biggest mysteries in marine science, but new research suggests their birthplaces may be ...

Since the whale shark is a filter feeder, the divers were not at risk of being eaten A giant whale shark looked ready to snack on a pair of amazed divers off the coast of Tubbataha, Philippines.

Over the course of their lives (which can last more than 100 years), whale sharks travel distances that can exceed the ...

It’s a crucial time for whales to fatten up, and a new study suggests some whale species announce an abundance of food with songs — but when food supply drops, so do the songs. They used ...

Whale sharks are known for being gentle giants and humans are not on the menu. In fact, their gentle nature along with the algae found in their stomachs led some to mistakenly believe that they ...

The megalodon is thought to have gone extinct because a changing climate limited their food resources and ... we are talking about a shark that is as big as a whale, basically,” Cooper told ...