Humpback whales are becoming entangled in shark nets off the coast of Australia, highlighting the threats these nets pose. Around Queensland and New South Wales, humpback whales are being accidentally ...

Qatar region raises the risk of pollution in one of the most important whale shark aggregation sites on Earth.

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - The University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Fisheries Research and Development is asking for the public’s help in tracking the whale shark. If the name sounds ...

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 ...

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 ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Stella Diamant of the Madagascar Whale Shark Project taking a photo ID shot of a whale shark ...

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 ...

Once hunted and butchered for oil and meat, whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are now being rescued by fishers along India’s western Arabian Sea coast. Since 2001, the nonprofit Wildlife Trust of India ...