Sharks don’t have bones. Their skeletons are made of cartilage - the same soft, flexible stuff as your ears and the tip of your nose are made of. This is true for all sharks, from the formidable great ...

So, everything that has earned sharks their reputation, especially in pop culture, they do it without bones. Just for good measure, the whale shark, which is the world’s largest fish ...

When you think of giant sharks, the great white from the blockbuster Jaws is probably what springs to mind. But at a little over six metres long, this fictional man-eating monster is small fry when ...

Whale sharks are the largest fish on the planet; the average whale shark is between 18 and 40 feet long, though the Georgia ...

After the soft tissues are gone, specialised organisms like "bone-eating worms" will burrow into the whale's bones, consuming the marrow and nutrients within ...

There were no fractures found in any of the whale’s bones; however ... That, along with evidence of shark scavenging, indicates the whale may have been dead for some time.