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

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 ...

Previous killer whale attacks on the sharks involved multiple orcas ... as orcas may be facing challenges finding food due to issues like climate change and other human-led changes in their ...

Whale sharks are filter-feeding sharks, meaning as they swim, a whale shark's mouth will filter seawater for food through the gill slits. A friendship over food: Great white sharks study dives ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Seven Worlds Director, Lucy Wells Roaming the world’s temperate and tropical oceans, the whale shark is the largest species of fish, feasting on an abundance of microscopic plankton as it ...

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 ...