One of the world’s busiest whale-shark destinations is struggling to manage a boom in ecotourism. A new USF study finds the ...
A new study led by University of South Florida biologist Lucas Griffin has found that tour boats and swimmers routinely ...
Whale sharks tend to feed at aggregation sites in the southern Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico. Some of the fish that gather are still rather young and small, making them a bit more ...
A stranded whale shark on Varkala beach was rescued by locals and tourists who spent over three hours freeing it from a ...
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Friday updated its regulation and ...
Governments adopted greater protections for more than 70 species of sharks and rays at an international wildlife trade ...
JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (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. They are ...
Recently, we dove deep on the world’s smallest shark (the dwarf lanternshark) and now we’re swinging to the other end of the shark size spectrum to look at the world’s largest fish. The whale shark is ...
Once targeted for oil and meat, the whale shark is now being saved by fishers along India’s Arabian Sea coast. What began as ...
Governments agreed to ban or restrict international trade in shark meat, fins and other products for more than 70 species ...
Sloths, sharks, rays, and okapi gained stronger CITES protections at CoP20, with new Appendix I and II listings.