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 ...

Whale sharks are the biggest fish in the world, but much about them remains unknown. Like many types of sharks, they give birth to live young, though no one has witnessed a baby whale shark being born ...

Lots of animals produce eggs. These protect and provide for offspring as they develop. There are over 500 species of shark living in waters around the world and the majority give birth to live young.

Despite their enormous size, whale sharks eat tiny planktonic organisms, including copepods, arrow worms, fish eggs, crab larvae, coral spawn and krill. Whale sharks are known for being gentle giants ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus ... Ultrasound imagery showed egg follicles in two of the 22 females studied, meaning those females were mature enough to reproduce but were also not pregnant.

“The whale shark has the smallest brain compared to body mass. The brain is the size of an egg,” said Francesca Pancaldi, first author of the study and a researcher at Centro ...

fish eggs and small fish. “They are very graceful movers, very slow, and just beautiful to see in the wild,” Hendon said. Hendon said whale sharks are typically spotted during the summer and ...

In the area known as the Afuera, hundreds of whale sharks aggregate for the largest gathering worldwide -- dining on an endless fish egg "buffet," said Daye. After leaving the Afuera area ...

The record for shark fasting, set by a Swell Shark, is 15 months. Whale sharks are primarily planktivores, meaning they mostly feed on plankton but will also eat small fish. They’re also filter ...

However, part of the elusive animal’s life remains a mystery as scientists are unclear where the whale sharks go after feasting on the plankton and fish egg bounty in the gulf, NOAA reports.