Recently, we dove deep on the world’s smallest shark (the dwarf lanternshark) and now we’re swinging to the other end of the shark size spectrum to look at the world’s largest fish. The whale shark is ...

NEAR ROTTNEST ISLAND, Australia -- A swimmer in Australia pulled off an incredibly dangerous stunt involving the floating carcass of a dead whale and two hungry great white sharks, and lived to tell ...

We’ve all heard of the world’s most massive sharks, both past and present. The megalodon, the great white shark, and the whale shark get most of the attention, but did you know that there are a ...

There are only a few places in the world where you can see whale sharks. The Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia is one of them. Traces of sharks can also be found on a hike through a bizarre canyon ...

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 ...

It turns out that the answer involves a custom-built tank, a cargo plane, and some very polite shark passengers. User @bybrenosantos_ joked that maybe the aquarium was constructed around the whale ...

A life-size whale shark inflatble model is helping to spread awareness about marine conservation in Kerala. When we think about sharks, our minds tend to wander to conjured up images of great whites, ...

The world’s largest living fish has plenty to fear from people. New research shows that a large proportion of whale sharks at a popular and protected tourism region bear scars caused by human activity ...