Researchers are working to better understand a “silent” threat to whale sharks—ship collisions. Fishermen’s lights in Djibouti attract plankton and a young whale shark to the water’s surface, where ...

Marine biologists have documented the first known case of a whale shark surviving and thriving despite a severe spinal deformity. The finding focuses on a 6-meter-long specimen that was first spotted ...

A new study shows the Bird’s Head Seascape in West Papua is a crucial nursery for juvenile whale sharks, where most sightings involved young males feeding around fishing platforms. Researchers ...

The habitat of 30 species of sharks, rays, and chimaeras, also called ghost sharks, overlap with areas where proposed deep-sea mining may occur, according to new research published in Current Biology ...