Climate change shifts whale shark habitats, increasing deadly ship strikes. Urgent action is needed to protect them.

The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites ... The earliest fossil evidence for sharks or their ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago, during ...

If you’ve ever swum with the whale sharks, seen a lion in the African savanna or watched ... the world has some remarkable animals that live on the smaller end of the scale. Read on to discover this ...

There are more than 500 species of sharks in the world's oceans, from the 7-inch dwarf lantern shark to whale sharks that ...

Sharks, ancient cartilaginous fishes, have existed for over 410 million years, surviving five mass extinctions through their ...

Males, on the other hand, were up to 47 feet long and tipped the scales at up to 68,000 ... such as the predatory sperm whale Livyatan and modern great white sharks. By 3.6 million years ago ...

But the scale of the size dispute in some cases calls ... Similarly, the methodology behind the initial size estimates of the whale Perucetus were called into question earlier this year.

Scottish sightings of Basking Sharks have fallen to their lowest level in 20 years. Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT), ...

The era of large scale commercial whaling lasted ... expand the nutrient flow from the sea to land. Whale falls, according to the scientific literature, create habitat islands, benefiting scavengers ...

A lone catamaran named "Silky" patrols waters around the remote island of Malpelo, a protected refuge yet full of peril for ...

It’s part of ObSERVE, a state-sponsored marine scientific programme which aims to improve knowledge and understanding of ...

Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT ... at the other end of the scale, cosmetics, perfume and artificial silk. While basking shark sightings fell last year, HWDT recorded its highest sighting ...