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

HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites ... An extinction event at the end of the Devonian killed off at least 75% of all species on Earth, including many ...

There are more viviparous shark species - which bear live young - than sharks that lay eggs. But throughout Earth's oceans, viviparity occurs in a variety of forms. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are ...

Yet back then, any one of these creatures could become prey to the ocean's fiercest apex predator: the megalodon, a giant shark with massive teeth and a body the size of a whale. In many ways ...

If you picture a megalodon, chances are you envision what amounts to a gigantic great white shark. The image is understandable ... roughly as massive as a blue whale. For reference, the ...

The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body -- closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale. The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark ...

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 ...