The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

Sharks chomping on seals off Massachusetts, feasting on dead whale off Long Island: ‘Right in time for the 50th anniversary of Jaws’ ...

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — Whale sharks shouldn’t be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived ...

Maybe megalodon wasn’t so chonky after all A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists agree.

Whale sharks somehow manage to also be very private: Scientists don’t know where they mate, and they’ve never observed it before.