One of the world’s busiest whale-shark destinations is struggling to manage a boom in ecotourism. A new USF study finds the ...
A new study led by University of South Florida biologist Lucas Griffin has found that tour boats and swimmers routinely ...
A massive whale shark washed ashore at Varkala Beach in Kerala on December 11 after becoming entangled in a fishing net, leaving it stranded near the shore. Locals, tourists, and surfers formed human ...
The rescue was physically punishing. The shark’s rough, sandpaper-like skin cut through their hands, and its sheer weight ...
Whale sharks tend to feed at aggregation sites in the southern Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico. Some of the fish that gather are still rather young and small, making them a bit more ...
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Friday updated its regulation and ...
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 ...
JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — Whale sharks shouldn’t be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived. They are ...
A stranded whale shark on Varkala beach was rescued by locals and tourists who spent over three hours freeing it from a ...
Sloths, sharks, rays, and okapi gained stronger CITES protections at CoP20, with new Appendix I and II listings.
Sharks of every size, shape and lifestyle apparentlt all follow the same fundamental geometric rule. So, what else in nature ...