This is a non-fiction book. Whale sharks keep other fish safe. They eat plankton and shellfish. The whale shark drinks water and puts the water out of his gills and gets the food. He has a big mouth.

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 ...

A bump up near Pottsville. A nudge near Coffs Harbour. Drone sightings on the mid-north coast. A sighting at Palm Beach. While the biggest humpback migration in modern history is tailing off toward ...

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Friday updated its regulation and monitoring of several iconic shark and ray species ...

A new study has mapped whale shark stranding hotspots in Indonesian waters over the past decade and linked their occurrence ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

A whale shark has been observed feeding at the seabed for the first time, rather than filter-feeding on plankton at the sea surface. The unusual behaviour was spotted during a whale shark tour in Baja ...

An enormous whale shark can be seen feeding on a bustling school of anchovies off the coast of Hawaii in new, rare video, which researchers captured while conducting fieldwork around the island of ...