Sharks don't really want to eat humans; in fact, they're more scared of us than we are of them. Here's what they hunt to make up a typical shark diet.

But, if given their druthers, what do sharks eat? Join the 1871 Club Now: Members-only Hats, 2x F&S Issues & $15 ... But whale sharks also vacuum up barnacles, squid, fish eggs, small baitfish ...

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

Whale sharks are the largest fish in the sea, though as filter feeders, they don’t have the same bloodthirsty reputation as their kin. Still, they are sharks, so it’s long been believed these ...

Wyatt believes whale sharks don’t eat while migrating; and that the fasting sharks in the Japanese aquarium could have been refusing to eat based on their normal, migratory routines.

Tourists on a whale-watching cruise in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, saw two great white sharks eating a dead whale, and a marine biologist got photos.

Whale sharks open their huge mouths to feed on plankton, though this one appears to be interested in eating a diver. Photo by Simon Pierce from Caters News Agency used by permission ...

They’ll also eat a full-grown whale, but only after it’s already dead. Younger, smaller sharks like a lot of the same things, but they are not averse to eating lobster and crabs, Madigan says.

Whale sharks are filter feeders, eating plankton, fish eggs, krill, and crab larvae as well as small squid and fish that enter their large mouths. They cannot digest plastic garbage. Kevan Mantell ...

Whale sharks—the oceans largest sharks—eat the ocean’s smallest creatures, plankton, which includes tiny copepods and their larva, shrimp, algae, arthropod larva, krill, protozoa, and many ...