Whale sharks. Are they whales? Are they sharks? This amazing creature is actually a shark. It is called a whale shark due to ...

The whale shark, believed to be mature and between six to seven metres in length, had its tail wrapped in old rope or fishing net debris. A dive team subsequently searched the area, but poor ...

has been working with colleagues on the island to attach camera tags to investigate what the whale sharks are doing, but have run into some technical difficulties: the sharks dive deeper than ...

One of the 44 satellite tags she eventually deployed told her that a whale shark had dived 4,921 feet—nearly a mile. A marine biologist named Eric Hoffmayer recorded the deepest dive yet ...