Researchers have captured rare video of whale shark courtship behavior, revealing intimate details of the largest fish in the ...

Courtship and procreative behavior in many species of elasmobranchs—cartilaginous fish including rays, sawfish, sharks, and skates—may include following and biting. However, there has been little ...

Field studies at Ningaloo Reef document a male whale shark’s courtship attempts, offering rare insights into their mating ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the biggest fish on the planet, with some clocking in at 60 feet long. Now, for the first ...

It may have been comparable in length to today's biggest whale sharks, the largest of which has measured ... These jaws were lined with 276 teeth, and studies reconstructing the shark's bite force ...

An international team of researchers has examined bite marks on several seven-million-year-old skulls from extinct whales, ...

The first sharks on Earth: Ancient relatives of sharks first appeared in the world's oceans about 400 million years ago. Today, sharks are classified among the elasmobranchs, which also includes ...

Orcas in Mexico's Gulf of California are hunting whale sharks using a highly specialized set of strategies to attack them. Generally, whale sharks have few predators to worry about, being the ...

The attack was observed for the first time as a pod of orcas targeted young whale sharks, according to experts in Mexico. Four such attacks have been reported between 2008 and 2024 in the Gulf of ...