G etting certified in scuba diving is one of those things you can do that will literally open up a whole new world to explore: the underwater world, which is full of colorful coral reefs and ...

A volunteer rescue group of young marine wildlife enthusiasts is saving whale sharks stranded on Thiruvananthapuram’s beaches with surprisingly increasing regularity this summer. Ajith ...

Recent incidents where whale sharks were accidentally entangled in fishing nets on the Thiruvananthapuram coast have turned the spotlight on a critical issue—the absence of adequate compensation ...

Residents worked together to rescue a 22-foot whale shark (butanding) that got tangled in a fishing net near the shore of Barangay Maniboc, Lingayen. The massive marine creature was spotted around 10 ...

A dead humpback whale washed up on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast, and inspection by experts revealed hungry sharks had chewed at it like corn on the cob. The bites were noted as researchers with ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

As previously reported, 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 ...

Researchers in New Zealand found that a small species of shark makes noises with their teeth when touched by humans Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

The largest living sharks, such as the whale shark and basking shark, have slimmer body plans which grant the giants greater hydrodynamic efficiency as they ply through the ocean. But if you were ...

The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body -- closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale. The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark ...