EXPLAINS NO SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE NEEDED. THIS WAS A PACKED TOUR BOAT. PEOPLE EXPECTING TO SEE WHALES. THEY ENDED UP SEEING SOMETHING EVEN MORE RARE. IT’S A SIGHT NOBODY EXPECTED. NOT EVEN THESE ...

Whale sharks are the largest species of shark. Their gentle manner and massive size make them the gentle giants of the ocean. However, one especially large whale shark has been spotted off the Pacific ...

While killer whales (Orcinus orca) can trigger the immediate departure of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), extended absences from their aggregation sites are also part of the sharks' natural ...

BAJA CALIFORNIA, Mexico — Miguel Aguíñiga Rodríguez, Baja California’s Secretary of Tourism, has announced the start of the whale shark observation season, running from June 1 to December 15 in Bahía ...

Killer whales can scare white sharks away in the moment, but a 12-year study from South Australia shows that long disappearances from shark hotspots are often just part of the sharks’ natural rhythms.

Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are the largest fish in the world. They can trace their ancestry to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, 245–65 million years ago, and are members of the ...

With warm weather here and more people out on the water, great white shark sightings are rising around the region. There has been an “uptick” in confirmed white shark activity off the Bay State in the ...

A North Shore whale watch is having a heck of a start to the season. The 7 Seas Whale Watch out of Gloucester is on a heater so far, seeing more and more great white sharks in the northern waters.

The first white shark of the season was spotted off of Nantucket on May 11, but they aren't the only sharks that live in Massachusetts water. Ryan Knotek, an associate research scientist with the New ...

On a March morning in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state’s capital in southern India, a group of fishers were ...

Whale sharks are the gentle giants of the seas, but even they are not spared from harm at the hands of humans: nearly 77% of the whale sharks studied in a world-renowned marine tourism area off the ...