Whale sharks can pass more than 1,500 gallons of water per hour through their filter pads, trapping and eating krill, crab and fish larva, small fish, and jellyfish in the process.

Despite being the largest shark in the ocean, whale sharks aren't apex predators in the same way as some of their relatives. They tend to eat small fish, shrimp and plankton by sucking water in ...

Curious how whale sharks arrived at Georgia Aquarium? TikTok did too. The answer includes cargo planes, stretchers, and ...

SOMMER: Whale sharks are the largest fish species on the planet, as long as a school bus. This whale shark was a juvenile, though still about 16 feet long, and the killer whale was hunting it.

A whale shark can easily be spotted from the air, cruising just below the surface of the crystal-clear waters of the Indian ...

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Scientists discovered that a pod of orcas have developed a new method for killing whale sharks, the world's largest fish. Scientists have believed that killer whales ...

Despite their size, whale sharks eat mostly small organisms like plankton, schooling fish and squid, which they scoop from the water as they swim. Orcas are smaller: male orcas grow to about 30 feet.

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest fish in the world, growing as much as 40 feet or more in length. Despite their size, they are incredibly docile and only feed on plankton, small fish ...

Their new target is whale sharks, the world's largest fish species. According to CNN, a new study — published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science on Nov. 29 — discovered that an orca ...

(AP) — Whale sharks shouldn’t be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived.