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 ...

Video shows a massive whale shark gliding past divers off the Florida coast. — -- A whale shark was spotted off the coast of West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. Keith Brock and his wife captured ...

Whale sharks are the largest species of shark. Their gentle manner and massive size make them the gentle giants of the ocean. However, one especially large whale shark has been spotted off the Pacific ...

On a calm morning in May, Brianna Beaulieu, a doctoral student in marine biology at the University of Western Australia, and several researchers from around the world boarded two research vessels ...

Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are the largest fish in the world. They can trace their ancestry to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, 245–65 million years ago, and are members of the ...

Visitors to Sanibel experienced an unexpected encounter when they spotted a massive whale shark just 50 miles off the island's shore. Mike Kunert captured the rare sighting on camera while out fishing ...

One guide with the tour company said she had 'never seen a great white shark before in the wild' in her 30 years on the job Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

The fossil was found in the Ste. Genevieve Formation, which dates to approximately 335 to 340 million years ago. It was discovered by a combined team of scientists from the National Park Service ...