In a rare ocean encounter, two 45-ton whales chase off a whitetip shark to protect a diver from potential danger.

"In a couple of the photos, I was photographing a huge school of barracudas when I panned to my left to find this gorgeous juvenile female whale shark about to enter the school," Wallace told the ...

Baby whale sharks remain one of the biggest mysteries in marine science, but new research suggests their birthplaces may be ...

“This could explain why female whale sharks may be avoiding aggregation sites. Particularly for juvenile female sharks, the energetic costs of unwanted attention from males could imply a reason ...

The sperm whale wouldn't let go and kept chasing the shark,' Girodeau said. The female is seen 'diving upside down' as she positions herself between him and the shark, making sure the predator is ...

It's there that an observation was made of a female whale shark giving birth outside of an OMZ. However researchers haven’t ruled out the possibility that the shark unexpectedly gave birth ...

She’s behaving normally,” Michael Weiss, a research director with the Center for Whale Research, told KIRO Newsradio. “And that we were able to confirm the calf’s sex, and it’s a female ...

However, they can grow even longer. One of the biggest whale sharks ever reported was an impressive 18.8-metre-long female from the north-western Indian Ocean – that's longer than a tenpin bowling ...

SEATTLE — The newest member in the J Pod of the Southern Resident killer whales, calf J62, has been confirmed as a female by the Center for Whale Research. A team was sent to Snug Harbor on Feb ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Not much is known about whale shark reproduction. So, in September, an international team of scientists and conservationists donned scuba gear ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest species of shark. Although these animals produce eggs, they don't lay them. Instead, the young hatch while still in the female's body and are born as ...