International Whale Shark Day 2025 highlights the beauty and importance of whale sharks. Discover amazing facts about these gentle giants of the ocean.

Although these huge sea creatures are called ‘whale sharks’, they are not actually whales, but filter-feeding sharks, often referred to as "gentle giants". They are also the world’s largest fish, ...

Whale sharks are the largest species of shark. Their gentle manner and massive size make them the gentle giants of the ocean. However, one especially large whale shark has been spotted off the Pacific ...

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 ...

The ocean basins are so vast and deep that they hold about 97 percent of the Earth's water. Sea water that's trapped in ...

In 2014, a remarkable encounter with a whale shark sparked a journey of discovery off the coast of Madagascar's Nosy Be. Little did marine enthusiast and researcher, Stella Diamant, know that this ...

While movie megalodon is heightened for entertainment, the real thing was still huge. Megalodon was a white or mackerel shark, related to today’s great white shark. Some believe the whale shark is ...

An enormous whale shark can be seen feeding on a bustling school of anchovies off the coast of Hawaii in new, rare video, which researchers captured while conducting fieldwork around the island of ...

The majority of whale sharks in a marine tourism hotspot off Indonesia have human-caused scars, according to a new study. Photo from NOAA, UnSplash The majority of whale sharks in a global tourism ...

Taroko the whale shark was euthanized after his health declined at the Georgia Aquarium, officials announced. Screengrab from the Georgia Aquarium’s Facebook post After he was rescued from a seafood ...