Nature turns savage when one of the ocean’s top predators faces a giant of the sea. In this rare and terrifying encounter, a great white shark launches a relentless attack on a humpback whale. The ...

Despite their enormous size, whale sharks are completely harmless to humans. These peaceful filter feeders glide through the water, feeding only on plankton, krill, and other tiny organisms. Divers ...

Shark named Contender – at 14-foot and 1,653 pounds – is claimed to be the biggest male great white ever tagged in the ...

DANA and Ant International, together with Konservasi International, today unveiled the Ocean Buddy initiative, an interactive ...

Rescuers were trying to save the few remaining long-finned pilot whales still floundering in shallow waters off the Australian coast on Friday in one of the world's biggest mass whale strandings.

Male and female whale sharks - filter-feeding marine behemoths - grow at different rates, with females doing so more slowly but getting much larger than the guys, according to research that offers ...

Fernanda Urrutia is a PhD candidate studying marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Born and ...

New research reveals that deep-sea mining could dramatically threaten 30 species of sharks, rays, and ghost sharks whose ...

With just five guests and one journalist, this nearly private tour happens on a 35-foot fishing boat. But the only thing they’ll be fishing for is an eyeful of a feared and fascinating ocean predator: ...

Marine biologists have documented the first case of a whale shark surviving with a severe spinal deformity. The finding centers on a 20-foot whale shark first encountered in 2010 at Ewing Bank, a ...

A new study reports that the Bird’s Head Seascape off Indonesia’s West Papua serves as a vital habitat for juvenile male whale sharks, but lift-net fisheries, tourism boats and emerging mining ...