The whales use quick body movements to tear pieces of bull kelp for use as tools, perhaps the first known toolmaking by a marine mammal.

Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are the largest fish in the world. They can trace their ancestry to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, 245–65 million years ago, and are members of the ...

MANILA, Philippines — A whale shark, locally known as butanding, died of extreme exhaustion in Balayan, Batangas yesterday, the Philippine Coast Guard reported. The PCG said in its Facebook post ...

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — Whale sharks shouldn’t be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived.

A new study found that a killer whale pod in Mexico is attacking much larger whale sharks from below to debilitate them. This "sniper" hunting strategy appears to be an organized attack, according ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An orca pod in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico has devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks — the world’s largest fish that can grow up to 18 ...

Whale sharks are gentle giants, eating only tiny plankton with their three-foot-wide mouths. But that doesn’t mean they are easy to kill. Adults can grow up to 60 feet, as long as a bowling lane.

Despite their size, whale sharks eat mostly small organisms like plankton, schooling fish and squid, which they scoop from the water as they swim. Orcas are smaller: male orcas grow to about 30 feet .

Whale sharks are filter feeders, which means they have large mouths with which to eat plankton and small fish. They generally move slowly, and can live to be as much as 130 years old.