No one knows where whale sharks give birth. But a rare encounter with a baby whale shark could help solve one of the oceans' ...

"Even though the shark looks like it's swimming slowly, it's definitely a lot faster than you are," marine biologist and ace whale shark tagger Jaida Elcock, tells Popular Science. "Even if you have ...

Jonathan travels 150 miles into the northern Galapagos to Darwin Island, a remote location he considers one of the world's ...

Whale sharks, as the name implies, are huge, and aren’t particularly elusive creatures. So why is it that it’s historically ...

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New video evidence has revealed whale sharks, the largest fish in the sea, are serial snackers, feeding on large amounts of small prey at all ocean depths, according to research led by the Australian ...

Whale sharks often become trapped in fishing nets and die along the Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram coasts, where stake nets ...

Footage taken from the perspective of whale sharks on Ningaloo Reef uncovers previously unknown feeding behaviours of the world's biggest fish.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have figured out how to calculate the age of whale sharks - Earth's largest fish - with some guidance from the radioactive fallout spawned by Cold War-era atomic bomb ...

As the IUCN declares the whale shark Endangered, WWF officers in the Philippines and Indonesia weigh in on the importance of the species to livelihood and biodiversity in these known feeding grounds ...

The “Starry Giant by the Sea” whale shark exhibition opened at KW2 in Kaohsiung Harbor, featuring two 20-foot shipping ...