During the Covid-19 pandemic, Zahra Ebrahimi Behfar, who goes by Saghi, spent her days walking along the shores and swimming ...

A new study proves for the first time that the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ applies to large animals as well as small ones, ...

MANILA, Philippines — A whale shark, locally known as butanding, died of extreme exhaustion in Balayan, Batangas yesterday, the Philippine Coast Guard reported. The PCG said in its Facebook post ...

Whale sharks are one of the most beautiful and magnificent creatures on the planet. They are the largest shark, and also the largest fish in the ocean. Only a few species of whales are larger.

As Peschak descended, the sharks followed him to the coral reef, waltzing in and out of the light. A whale shark vacuums up a patch of plankton just below snorkeling tourists who come from all ...

The layered, fiber-reinforced structure of shark cartilage offers a compelling model for high-performance, resilient design, which holds promise for developing advanced materials from medical ...

The New England Aquarium say that basking sharks are the second-largest fish species after the whale shark and eat plankton. Dodd also told Fox that basking sharks prefer cooler waters and are ...

The basking shark, the second-largest fish in the ocean behind the whale shark, feeds on plankton and small fish. Its rounded fins and filter-feeding mouth distinguish it from the pointy menace of ...

Implements made of whale bones in other parts of the world, such as the South Pacific islands, date to no more than several thousand years old. Seaside scavengers in Western Europe collected bones ...

Basking sharks are the second largest fish in the world, beaten out only by the whale shark. Though they can reach lengths of over 40 feet, the one spotted in the Great Salt Pond was closer to 20 ...

Swimming with whale sharks is supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but I’ve already failed at it twice. Perhaps the whale sharks of Indonesia’s Raja Ampat won’t be as shy as the ...