Scientists still do not know the exact frequency of ... [+] whale shark pregnancies, how long gestation lasts, or how often individual females reproduce. Another possibility is that these birth ...

“When hunting, all pod members work together, hitting the whale shark to turn it upside down. In that position the sharks ...

Since the whale shark is a filter feeder, the divers were not at risk of being eaten A giant whale shark looked ready to snack on a pair of amazed divers off the coast of Tubbataha, Philippines.

It's there that an observation was made of a female whale shark giving birth outside of an OMZ. However researchers haven’t ruled out the possibility that the shark unexpectedly gave birth ...

Seven Worlds Director, Lucy Wells Roaming the world’s temperate and tropical oceans, the whale shark is the largest species of fish, feasting on an abundance of microscopic plankton as it ...