The world's top wildlife trade organization increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a ...

By Basten Gokkon A new study has mapped whale shark stranding hotspots in Indonesian waters over the past decade and linked ...

Whale sharks are the largest species of fish on the planet. They are among the largest animals to have ever lived. Only blue whales, sperm whales, and humpback whales (all mammals) are larger. The ...

The discovery of a dead whale entangled in a shark net off Coledale Beach ignites fresh debate on New South Wales's ...

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 ...

The killer whales ripped the liver out of a shark and passed it around—only the second time orcas have been seen engaging in ...

Whale shark sightings were almost exclusively seen near bagans, where they typically fed on baitfish including anchovies, herrings, and sprats – either swimming horizontally or in a vertical heads-up ...

Sharks are a remarkable, diverse group of ocean-dwellers that inhabit marine ecosystems all over the world. From the massive, gentle giant whale shark to the bioluminescent dwarf lantern shark, there ...

Six million marauding antelope and a close encounter with a deadly shark also feature in National Geographic's Pictures of ...