Shark attacks are rare, but hotspots see more activity due to warm waters, surf conditions, and heavy tourism.

Nature turns savage when one of the ocean’s top predators faces a giant of the sea. In this rare and terrifying encounter, a ...

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 ...

The world’s largest living fish has plenty to fear from people. New research shows that a large proportion of whale sharks at a popular and protected tourism region bear scars caused by human activity ...

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 ...

A video has gone viral on TikTok that makes it appear like an Orca trainer named “Jessica Radcliffe” was killed by a whale. However, is it real? If a marine trainer was really killed in a whale attack ...

One of the world’s busiest whale-shark destinations is struggling to manage a boom in ecotourism. A new USF study finds the ...

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 ...

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 ...