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 ...

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once ...

With its cartilaginous body and cold blood, the whale shark is decidedly not a whale. But this shark is about as long as a humpback and just as gentle. So gentle, in fact, that tours to dive with ...

It is also the world's largest predatory fish, and can grow to be about six metres and weigh more than 2,000 kilograms. Also called the great white, this fearsome shark can detect one drop of ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the biggest fish on the planet, with some clocking in at 60 feet long. Now, for the first time, we might have some clues to how these endangered gentle giants mate.

The new IUCN report, put together by more than 350 experts from more than 100 countries, finds that overfishing is the biggest threat to the world’s 1,266 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras ...

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