For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of orcas cooperatively hunting whale sharks, the largest species of fish on Earth. This graphic footage proves that whale sharks are a ...

This animation shows what happened when an American man was swallowed whole by a humpback whale off the coast of ...

and has a mouth that looks, head-on, wide enough to suck down a small car. Despite this distinctive profile, scientists know very little about Rhincodon typus—the whale shark. The behemoths are ...

That is the view of Hiroshima University zoologist Ko Tomikawa, whose team discovered a new species of shrimp-like gammarid amphipods living in the mouth of a whale shark. Researchers first found ...

The speckled blob of a whale shark moves past the boat slowly, mouth open wide. Another one approaches, and I swing my legs over the side and jump in. Moving clumsily through the water ...

For decades, whale sharks have migrated to the mouth of the Donsol to feed on plankton. “These filter feeders are attracted by the abundance of zooplanktons, small fishes, squids, and crustaceans in ...