When a group of fishers in Indonesia spotted some whale sharks, for once, it wasn’t their massive size that captured their attention; it was the animals’ minuscule size. They were baby whale sharks, ...

Whale sharks are the largest species of shark. Their gentle manner and massive size make them the gentle giants of the ocean. However, one especially large whale shark has been spotted off the Pacific ...

As so-called “killer whales” have made news over the past few years for violent boat attacks in European waters, marine biologists have noticed a far sweeter behavior in Iceland’s frigid waves: the ...

Sometimes during whale-watching expeditions, another type of creature grabs the spotlight merely by showing up. The accompanying footage shows a massive basking shark alongside a Cape Cod ...

This is the astonishing moment a whale shark pup gulped down water from the sea's surface for its lunch. Footage shows the juvenile marine mammal with its mouth wide open as it fed on plankton off the ...

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 ...