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.

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 ...

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

topping the underwater food chain. 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 ...

Whale carcasses take decades to fully decompose and can provide food for an entire ecosystem on the dark depths ... where it can be scavenged by sharks and seabirds. Eventually the ocean giant will ...

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 ...