The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

Whale sharks have a built-in "coughing" mechanism that's triggered when objects that clearly aren't food brush past their filter pads. This causes the whale shark to open its mouth and attempt to ...

Whale sharks use their gills to "strain" their prey from the water as they swim. In Royer's video from Oahu, the whale shark can be seen luring small anchovies toward its huge open mouth.

Rare video shows an orca ripping open a 30-foot-long whale shark before feasting on its liver By Marianne Guenot ...

Algae has turned up before in the stomachs of beached whale sharks. But because of how whale sharks feed — by swimming mouth-open through swarms of zooplankton — “everyone though it was just ...

In 2017, Japanese scientists found hundreds of shrimp-like creatures in an unusual place: on the gill rakers of a female whale shark, the world’s largest fish, living in a fish preserve off the ...

These Newly Discovered Shrimp Call a Whale Shark’s Mouth Home Found in a whale shark off Okinawa, hundred of amphipods were living it up in the giant fish’s gills Jason Daley - Correspondent ...