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 ...

This is true for all sharks, from the formidable great white to the gentle giant the whale shark. Shark skeletons don’t include ... which get deposited into their skeletal cartilage from the food they ...

It’s predicted that this shark could live to 200 years old, and its slow way of life means it expends little energy when scavenging for food - perhaps a drowned Polar bear or dead whale.