Negative buoyancy allows whale sharks to glide down to deeper water without using much energy. Whale sharks are ovoviviparous, which means the eggs hatch inside the female's body and the young are ...

Swimming with whale sharks was something I had never contemplated until visiting La Paz, Mexico, a few hours north of Cabo ...

A friendly baby whale shark delighted divers when it swam up to them during a trip. The juvenile marine animal spanning 13ft (4 metres) emerged from the water near the boat carrying 17 tourists for a ...

Water sports are considered thrilling, challenging, refreshing and physically beneficial. While some do it for physical ...

Despite this distinctive profile, scientists know very little about Rhincodon typus—the whale shark. The behemoths are indeed sharks: They breathe through gills, like fish. They are cold-blooded ...

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 ...

Whale sharks are large, slow moving and docile creatures that mainly inhabit tropical waters. They are long-lived but scientists have struggled to work out the exact ages of these endangered ...

It was 7:30 a.m., and between the brutal jet lag and a mild hangover, I was tempted to skip the whole whale shark excursion that everyone else in my sailing group couldn’t seem to stop talking about.

KOTA KINABALU – A whale shark and some species of reef manta rays are back at Semporna’s Pom Pom Island on Sabah’s east coast, where these marine creatures are rarely seen. Marine biologist ...

But the marine park soon found itself the object of international discussion as it was revealed their advertised real whale shark was actually a robot. In fact, as visitors found, the whale shark ...