JAMESTOWN, St. Helena — Whale sharks shouldn't be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — the biggest fish in the sea — and found in warm oceans all around the world. By shark ...

When you think of giant sharks, the great white from the blockbuster Jaws is probably what springs to mind. But at a little over six metres long, this fictional man-eating monster is small fry when ...

which fires the tag into the shark’s body. De la Parra pops to the surface. “Macho!” he shouts, having seen the claspers that show it’s a male. The biggest fish in the sea, a whale shark ...

“The whale shark has the smallest brain compared to body mass. The brain is the size of an egg,” said Francesca Pancaldi, first author of the study and a researcher at Centro ...

Whale sharks have an unusual reproductive method called ovoviviparity, where fertilized eggs are kept inside the mother’s body until they are ready to hatch. This process results in the birth of ...

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A 50-foot gray whale washed ashore in Huntington Beach on Friday. Nonprofit workers say the young adult female showed no ...

This is true for all sharks, from the formidable great white to the gentle giant the whale shark. Shark skeletons don’t include ... Over time, this makes these body parts harder and stronger. While ...

A group of local fishermen in Ghana’s Central Region erupted in excitement after encountering a whale shark, a species listed ...

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.

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.