In rare video footage, a male whale shark has been spotted biting at his female partner during courtship. Before now, we knew very little about the secret sex lives of the world's largest fish ...

three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's biggest whale sharks, the largest of which has measured in at 18.8 metres. Without a ...

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

Their new target is whale sharks, the world's largest fish species. According to CNN, a new study — published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science on Nov. 29 — discovered that an orca ...

Researchers have recently witnessed behavior in the wild that could offer critical clues about how the endangered whale shark ...

(SOUNDBITE OF WHALE SHARK BREATHING) SOMMER: Whale sharks are the largest fish species on the planet, as long as a school bus. This whale shark was a juvenile, though still about 16 feet long ...

Whale sharks, despite being the largest fish in the ocean, still have pretty secretive sex lives. What we do know about the reproductive behaviors of whale sharks is largely based on observations ...

specialised hunting techniques used by killer whales to attack the world's largest fish, according to scientists. On four occasions caught on video, a group of orcas preyed on whale sharks in the ...

Orcas — also known as killer whales — are once again on the offensive. Their new target is whale sharks, the world's largest fish species. According to CNN, a new study — published in the journal ...