Visitors watch whale sharks swim at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, in Okinawa, Japan.

Sweet Jesus. See this plexiglass tunnel surrounded by Dubai killer sharks? It sprang a leak and flooded. The shark tunnel flooded. One day after the killer whale killed the Sea World trainer. And the ants escaped. We are outta here....

A fresh look at forgotten fossils has revealed two new species of giant, filter-feeding fish that swam Earth’s oceans for 100 million years, occupying the ecological niche now filled by whales and whale sharks. Until now, that ancie...

Whale sharks are among those protected. Photo: Christian Jensen via flickr. The United Nations Environment Programme has announced a "landmark agreement" to protect seven of the world's migratory shark species and 113 nations have...

Photo via San Francisco Ocean Film Festival Isla Holbox is a small island off the coast of Mexico that boasts an unusually large whale shark population. The nutrient-rich waters are a perfect feeding ground for the largest fish in...

A conservationist in Australia claims he has proven that tiger sharks are really docile creatures and not man-hungry predators because he sat on a whale carcass and petted the sharks while they devoured it. Said Leon Deschamps: "Tig...

It's a tough time to be selling Brooklyn's most expensive apartments, so when a rich sucker well-informed connoisseur comes down the line, the sharks...

Chalkboard contributions this week from Bob Beard (Whale sharks) and Stephen Buckner (Traitor Bowl). Got a suggestion? Drop it in the suggestion box below or hit me on Twitter or Facebook. For those who aren’t familiar with their h...

Sharks, monsters, and now whales are washing up on shore. This morning in New Jersey (Monmouth Beach, to be exact), a 20 to 30-foot long humpback whale was discovered. WCBS reports that "...the stomach was distended. The smell was...

This David Attenborough-narrated video from the Natures Great Events series is, in my view, one of the most spectacular nature segments I've ever seen. Off the coast of South Africa, a mass of sardines is attacked by a formidable ...

In what is described as the second largest acrylic glass panel aquarium in the world we see everything from whale sharks to manta rays. The aquarium is called the Kuroshio Sea and is part of the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. It holds 7...

Whale sharks, the largest of the ocean’s fish, are spending time in the warm waters off the Yucatan Peninsula during these summer days. Can you blame them? Probably not. Wanna join them? These flat-headed, gargantuan creatures (up t...

An 88-foot Blue Whale washed ashore in New Zealand, riddled with bites from feeding sharks. The AP reports it likely died of old age. In related news, last weekend a massive Finback Whale washed ashore on Herring Cove Beach in...

In an ambitious research project, geneticists from the University of Illinois took DNA samples from 68 whale sharks from around the world - and found that the giant fish shared very similar genetic codes. The findings have two impli...

In an ambitious research project, geneticists from the University of Illinois took DNA samples from 68 whale sharks from around the world - and found that the giant fish shared very similar genetic codes. The findings have two impli...

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Biologists used DNA tagging to show that whale sharks, the world's largest fish, show little genetic variation across widely separated tropical oceans, underscoring the need for wider protection against over-fishing....

Travel 2008 has been a helluva year for me. I’ve swam with whale sharks, had monkeys sit on my head, been around armed soldiers in a hot zone, was in the area of a presidential assassination attempt, drove close to 10,000km, explore...

tags: Galapagos, marine life, sharks, sea turtle, streaming video This stunning video documents the undersea life of the Galapagos Islands -- and just when you think it can't get any better, the whale shark appears .. Music by Ha...

I went to Exmouth, WA to see whale sharks. I ended up seeing five whale sharks the day I went out, but was unable to take any photos (no underwater camera). I did however get to see some humpback whales. This was the tail of a mothe...