A beluga whale was captured biting at two divers inside a tank at the Chengdu Haichang Polar Ocean Park in Sichuan, China, on Thursday, Aug. 14 The pair of divers could be seen swimming away and were ...

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 ...

Conservation of whale sharks is fraught with challenges, including targeted hunting, accidental entanglement in fishing nets and changing sea temperatures. However, what ranks way above these ...

A rumor that has circulated online since 2018 claims that, in 2017, a humpback whale in the Cook Islands used its body to push marine biologist Nan Hauser around while she was underwater, seemingly to ...

The world’s largest living fish has plenty to fear from people. New research shows that a large proportion of whale sharks at a popular and protected tourism region bear scars caused by human activity ...

A whale watching tour in Nova Scotia, Canada, saw a great white shark eating a whale carcass during a Sept. 2 excursion It's a rare sighting because sharks "don't have to come to the surface to ...

It turns out that the answer involves a custom-built tank, a cargo plane, and some very polite shark passengers. User @bybrenosantos_ joked that maybe the aquarium was constructed around the whale ...

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A playful beluga whale stole a kiss from a visitor at a marine park in China. The cheeky moment unfolded at Polar Ocean Park ...

One guide with the tour company said she had 'never seen a great white shark before in the wild' in her 30 years on the job Freeport Whale & Seabird Tours/Facebook A whale watching tour in Nova Scotia ...