Tiny sharks have long been blamed for the eerily perfect circles carved into the skin of whales, dolphins and even submarines ...

How can a creature of such enormous size and long-distance migratory behavior cope with a spine twisted in multiple directions? (Whale shark with the spinal deformity not pictured.) Photo by Jenna ...

Whale sharks are really big. Their mouths can get up to five feet long, and they can suck in 600 cubic meters of water every hour. Swimming next to one, then, might take you back to Pinocchio’s trip ...

On a calm morning in May, Brianna Beaulieu, a doctoral student in marine biology at the University of Western Australia, and several researchers from around the world boarded two research vessels ...

ATLANTA (Atlanta News First/Gray News) - The Georgia Aquarium announced the death of a whale shark that had been at the facility for nearly two decades. Taroko, the aquarium’s male whale shark, was ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest fish in the world and are endangered but are hard to study because they’re largely solitary creatures that roam great distances. There are only about 30 ...