Over the course of their lives (which can last more than 100 years), whale sharks travel distances that can exceed the ...

A whale watching tour was surprised ... primarily consuming plankton.” In the videos recorded onboard, this basking shark seemed to be doing just that – feeding with its mouth wide open.

Climate change may also affect plankton numbers. As a slow-growing species that produces very few young, basking sharks are particularly vulnerable to extinction, which is why the animal is listed ...

Ningaloo Reef, a World Heritage site off Western Australia's coast, is experiencing significant coral bleaching due to a prolonged marine heatwave. Divers have documented widespread bleaching across ...

our luck had got even better and a young male whale shark had come to feed on the bounty of plankton in the bay. Oblivious to everyone around him he opened his massive mouth and started to gulp ...

Seven Worlds Director, Lucy Wells Roaming the world’s temperate and tropical oceans, the whale shark is the largest species of fish, feasting on an abundance of microscopic plankton as it ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...