Science news articles about 'whale sharks'

Researchers have found that whale sharks move in a pattern of dive and ascent, rather than cruising at the surface as previously thought.

Photos of giant whale sharks snapped by vacationing scuba divers and snorkelers are helping scientists track the elusive marine creatures across the oceans thanks to a star-mapping method used by NASA ...

Activists in the Philippines have rescued what they believe might be the smallest offspring of the world's biggest fish — a whale shark the size of a forearm, a conservation group said Tuesday.

... their habitat if we know what habitat they use." Schmidt credits some countries for closing whale shark fisheries and hopes that efforts such as ecotourism programs, which sometimes include swims ...

he number of endangered whale sharks is steady, and may even be increasing, according to a revolutionary study by both scientists and the general public.

A BBC crew films a whale shark - the world's biggest fish - expelling food waste.

Ecologists on an Australian reef spy on the secret life of whale sharks.

... is ready to intercept tagged marine life, including southern bluefin tuna, great white sharks and whale sharks. OTN's Australian partners, the Australian Acoustic Tagging and ...

An Indian Ocean island nation has created three new ocean sanctuaries, including a tropical bay where hundreds of 12-foot manta rays and 40-foot whale sharks feast on swarms of plankton and krill.