The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has collected body size data for more than 85,000 marine animal species and ...

Unusual for non-mammals, whale sharks give birth to their young live instead of laying eggs that hatch outside the body. They ...

Whale sharks have more thermal inertia than any other fish species examined – their body temperatures decreased less than 0.1°C per minute, even in water that was over 10 degrees cooler than ...

The largest shark alive today, reaching up to 20 meters long, is the whale shark, a sedate filter feeder. As recently as 4 million years ago, however, sharks of that scale likely included the fast ...

Grandma Orca Whale Body Slams Great White Shark in Intense Ocean Battle — Watch! Kelli Bender. Thu, March 7, 2024 at 8:52 PM UTC. 2 min read.

Whale Sharks are Sharks; not Whales Check out this short video of our whale shark swim, and just one of the whale sharks we saw. Contrary to what their name might suggest, whale sharks are not whales.

A new study proves for the first time that the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ applies to large animals as well as small ones, offering key lessons for conversation.

In it, a male killer whale is swimming around the body of a bleeding whale shark. Later, three more videos showed similar scenes, where a group of killer whales worked together to attack other ...

A coterie of international researchers confirmed the ages of two whale sharks for the first time – by sampling the carbon in its vertebrae, left over from nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War.

In Oslob (located in the Philippines), whale shark tourism has become a popular attraction, where tourists observe these majestic creatures up close while they are being fed varying amounts of ...