Whale sharks have to eat a lot to sustain their large bodies ... Whale sharks face major pressures from human activity. Like other sharks, they have been targeted for their meat and fins. For example, ...

It is, the narrator says coldly, a "mindless eating ... human consumption or merely as the piscine whipping-boy of individuals pandering to shark attack paranoia". Great white shark snacks on ...

A solitary killer whale ... the shark populations in the areas. The scientists do not know what is driving the behaviour, but Dr Towner told BBC News that it was becoming evident that "human ...

Swimming with whale sharks was something I had never contemplated until visiting La Paz, Mexico, a few hours north of Cabo ...

People were worried that overfishing of both the food the sharks eat and the sharks themselves ... By following reports of human-shark incidents, scientists determined the South African shark ...

The pattern of every whale shark is distinct, like a human fingerprint, which allows researchers and whale watchers to ...