In rare video footage, a male whale shark has been spotted biting at his female partner during courtship. Before now, we knew ...

Whale sharks typically gather around Ningaloo Reef every year from March through July to feast on the plankton and krill that ...

Jupiter resident Mike Lee was plying the azure waters off the coast of Palm Beach County looking for bait last month when he ...

Courtship and procreative behavior in many species of elasmobranchs—cartilaginous fish including rays, sawfish, sharks, and skates—may include following and biting. However, there has been little ...

Big Mouth, the Minnesota Zoo’s beluga whale, required a 17-member team that included surgeons ... Many of the advancements in the University’s Medical School, from the first open-heart surgery to the ...

making this one’s journey close to two times that of most whales, according to the study that published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science. “These animals are distinct ...

But the whale identified in the Royal Society Open Science study is unique in part for just how far it traveled, setting a record for the longest documented great-circle distance — the shortest ...

The whale was first sighted in waters off northwestern Colombia in July 2013, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science on the creature's movements and how ...

Since early December, there have been six confirmed cases in Hawaii – more than what is typical at this time in the season.

Experts say that the whale — a 40-foot-long, approximately 5-year-old humpback — is likely in distress because the rope is tightly tied around its right flipper and extends through its mouth.