JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — Whale sharks shouldn’t be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived.

This is incredible! This is an enormous shark, folks!” the Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch naturalist informs her wide-eyed passengers in the footage.

Authorities have launched a search and rescue operation after a whale shark was spotted entangled in fishing gear debris near ...

JAMESTOWN, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha — Whale sharks shouldn't be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest ...

The stuff of Attenborough doc legend ... to the extent that it is known at all to those outside Australia, for its whale ...

The slow-moving sharks—which are often mistaken for great white sharks—have been spotted on some recent whale watches across the region. "Just under the surface of the water, it's 10 feet away ...

flexible stuff as your ears and the tip of your nose are made of. This is true for all sharks, from the formidable great white to the gentle giant the whale shark. Shark skeletons don’t include any ...

It was 7:30 a.m., and between the brutal jet lag and a mild hangover, I was tempted to skip the whole whale shark excursion that everyone else in my sailing group couldn’t seem to stop talking ...

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