After a series of fatal shark attacks in Australia, attention turned to a buried whale carcass on a popular beach. Some ...

A whale carcass washed ashore on Tuesday in the town of Esperance, an idyllic coastal enclave in Western Australia. But before the blubbery body made it to the sand, an estimated 13-foot great white ...

In the serene surface of the Gulf of California, a harrowing spectacle is developing. Near the surface ridden with confusion and gushing blood, a juvenile great white shark struggles. A pod of killer ...

On a calm morning in May, Brianna Beaulieu, a doctoral student in marine biology at the University of Western Australia, and several researchers from around the world boarded two research vessels ...

The 20-foot whale shark was first encountered in 2010 at Ewing Bank, off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. ‘To see ...

The whale is the 15th to be caught in the nets along Australia’s east coast this year Khynan Gardner/ORRCA A young humpback whale was found dead after it got entangled in a shark net in New South ...

Authorities ended a 15-hour search for Monterey County's Erica Fox, missing after a shark attack off Lovers Point in ...

How can a creature of such enormous size and long-distance migratory behavior cope with a spine twisted in multiple directions? (Whale shark with the spinal deformity not pictured.) Photo by Jenna ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest fish in the world and are endangered but are hard to study because they’re largely solitary creatures that roam great distances. There are only about 30 ...