Small organisms such as plankton get stuck in their gill rakers and the shark then consumes the food. Filter-feeding sharks include whale sharks, megamouth sharks and basking sharks. These species ...

It may have been comparable in length to today's biggest whale sharks, the largest of which has measured in at 18.8 metres. Without a complete megalodon skeleton to measure, these figures are based on ...

AN INCREDIBLE nine million year old ancestor of the great white shark has been discovered in Peru. The 23ft long beast had huge flesh-tearing teeth that ripped through its prey and could grow up ...

The researchers took swabs from the white shark's bite wounds and sequenced for any genetic material that the predator may ...

The 39-foot gray whale carcass was discovered floating off Marina del Rey on Saturday with most of its head missing.

Because sharks shed their teeth throughout their lifetimes and leave bite marks on escaped prey, it would be easy for us to detect the presence of an enormous whale-hunting shark even if the shark ...

one of the whale shark's only defenses. "It's a huge animal that has very tiny teeth," says Francesca Pancaldi, a marine biologist at Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas and a co-author ...

The killer whale pod in Mexico hunts and attacks much larger whale sharks by targeting them from below, a study finds Orcas — also known as killer whales — are once again on the offensive.