Often, people's actions can harm animals in unintentional ways. However, this one human action is actually changing whale ...

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

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All the whale sharks were juveniles, though still 15 to 20 feet long. Sponsor Message "My surprise and my amazement is that they are definitely specialist hunters," Higuera says.

Whale sharks are the largest fish on the planet; the average whale shark is between 18 and 40 feet long, though the Georgia ...

SOMMER: Whale sharks are the largest fish species on the planet, as long as a school bus. This whale shark was a juvenile, though still about 16 feet long, and the killer whale was hunting it.

Whale sharks are gentle, filter-feeding giants, but orcas in Mexican waters were documented attacking the animals and devouring their livers. By Jason Bittel Off Baja California in Mexico, a ...

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 ...

Whale sharks typically measure from 12 to 18 meters (39 to 59 feet), weigh up to 14 tons and are plankton eaters; all sharks have a unique pattern of white spots on their upper side.

Almost 1,900 whale sharks have been identified in Philippine waters, the second-largest known population in the world. Scientists give individual whales numbers for names.

All the whale sharks were juveniles, though still 15 to 20 feet long. "My surprise and my amazement is that they are definitely specialist hunters," Higuera says.