Whale sharks. Are they whales? Are they sharks? This amazing creature is actually a shark. It is called a whale shark due to its enormous size, and because sharks are fish, the whale shark is the ...

Sometimes during whale-watching expeditions, another type of creature grabs the spotlight merely by showing up. The accompanying footage shows a massive basking shark alongside a Cape Cod whale ...

A pod of orcas off the coast of Mexico appears to have learned new skills that help them hunt whale sharks — the world’s largest fish, scientists say. A study published Friday in the journal ...

but eyewitnesses say there may have been more than 100 sharks taking advantage of the whale buffet. Tourists John Cloke and Indy Crimmins captured video of the gruesome aquatic feast in waters off ...

Researchers and tourists in Mossel Bay last June witnessed a killer whale named Starboard hunt an 8-foot great white shark, seizing it by the pectoral fin and "eventually eviscerating it ...

Kameryn F., Yardley, Pa. By the numbers, white sharks are a lot more dangerous to humans than orcas are. Despite the name “killer whale,” there’s only one well-documented instance of a wild ...

Blue whales are the Earth’s largest species and can stretch beyond 100 feet ... enterprising sharks at some stage of their life. It’s also known that sharks scavenge dead whales, blues and others. “We ...

Orcas in Mexico's Gulf of California are hunting whale sharks using a highly specialized set of strategies to attack them. Generally, whale sharks have few predators to worry about, being the ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) have captured the fascination of the world with their constellation-like appearance. Found in tropical and warm-temperate seas, well-known aggregation sites have ...