Despite humanity looking at the ocean for as long as humans have strived ... Here are some of the biggest fish in the oceans.

Swimming with whale sharks was something ... These gentle giants filter plankton and fish from the top of the ocean like a baleen whale and eat eight percent of their body weight per week.

According to the organization, the fish is a so-called "black seadevil" known by its scientific name Melanocetus johnsonii. They typically swim between 650 and 6,500 feet below the ocean's surface.

A video shared on Instagram showed the female fish, whose Latin name translates to "black sea monster," swimming through the light-filled ocean waters off the coast of Tenerife. "This could be the ...

They can swim at almost 25mph and hold their breath for almost 15 minutes. The great white shark is the ocean habitat's largest predatory fish. They can detect a single drop of blood in 10 billion ...

Most deep-sea anglerfish sightings come from either dead specimens washing up on shore or footage captured by deep-sea submarines—not from a live fish swimming near the ocean’s surface.