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.

Upon examination, scientists found 300 pups. Whale sharks are similar to other sharks in that they are ovoviviparous, their eggs are fertilized internally, then they hatch inside the female ...

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 are sharks, fish, not whales. They breathe water through their gills, but filter feed by sucking massive volumes of water into their mouths and eating the tiny fish, fish eggs ...

“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 ...

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.