Sydney’s harbor becomes a humpback highway in winter as the whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding ...

And they’ve been listed as ‘endangered’ under the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List since 2016.Whale sharks — and they are, in fact, sharks, although posing no risk to humans — ...

This month, the Queensland government announced an $A88 million (USD $57 million) investment in its Shark Control Program ...

In Australia, rescuers sprang into action to free a humpback calf from a deadly shark net as its mother watched. Off ...

Depth use was influenced by temperature, but differently by sex: Females dived to greater depths than males in SST between ...

Suspected whale shark mating behavior has also been reported in Australia and the sharks also gather in places like Mexico, the Arabian Sea and the Maldives, but that seems to amount to male ...

A new study proves for the first time that the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ applies to large animals as well as small ones, ...

Whale rescuers have freed a humpback badly tangled in shark nets off the Gold Coast in what they fear will be the first of many entrapments this migration season.

Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are the largest fish in the world. They can trace their ancestry to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, 245–65 million years ago, and are members of the ...

As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of shark sizes, from megaladon to the dwarf lanternshark.

Wildlife rescue teams scoured Australia's east coast on Monday to find and free a distressed humpback whale tangled in a rope.

Rescuers have saved a distressed humpback whale caught in shark netting off the Gold Coast. The whale was spotted entangled ...