Recent incidents where whale sharks were accidentally entangled in fishing nets on the Thiruvananthapuram coast have turned the spotlight on a critical issue—the absence of adequate compensation ...

Residents worked together to rescue a 22-foot whale shark (butanding) that got tangled in a fishing net near the shore of Barangay Maniboc, Lingayen. The massive marine creature was spotted around 10 ...

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Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

As previously reported, the largest shark alive today, reaching up to 20 meters long, is the whale shark, a sedate filter feeder. As recently as 4 million years ago, however, sharks of that scale ...