Once hunted and butchered for oil and meat, whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are now being rescued by fishers along India’s western Arabian Sea coast. Since 2001, the nonprofit Wildlife Trust of India ...

Drone footage revealed tourists and boats are harassing endangered whale sharks at a popular site off Mexico's coast. Rule violations include boats getting too close and swimmers touching the sharks, ...

Occurred on April 23, 2023 / Archipielago De Revillagigedo, Colima, Mexico Info from Licensor: "Video was taken in Roca Partida Island, Mexico, April 2023. During a dive, we had an encounter with a ...

MIAMI (WSVN) - A boater off the coast of Miami was treated to a whale of a sight. The boater was fishing when he spotted a whale shark swimming close to his vessel. The boater dove into the water to ...

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 ...

A baby humpback whale stranded off Long Beach Island, New Jersey, has died on a sandbar with suspected propeller injuries, according to a release by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. The whale ...

A baby whale’s inaugural cruise through Big Apple waters ended in tragedy over the weekend after its slashed and bloodied body beached on the shores of New Jersey. The still-breathing behemoth ...

He’s not your man. He’s a whale shark. I learned all these whale shark facts and more from a zine in progress by artist Ash (who asked to go by a pseudonym for this story) at the Punks at the Beach ...

A "Baby Shark" token hyped last week as officially representing the most viewed video on YouTube, slumped 90% after the issuing platform said the company minting the memecoin belatedly realized it ...

The majority of whale sharks in a marine tourism hotspot off Indonesia have human-caused scars, according to a new study. Photo from NOAA, UnSplash The majority of whale sharks in a global tourism ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Countless whale sharks are losing fins, being scraped and suffering other injuries due to human presence in oceans, research in ...

Whale sharks in Indonesia are suffering widespread injuries, with a majority scarred by human activity. Researchers found bagans and boats to be the biggest threats, especially as shark tourism grows.