The speckled blob of a whale shark moves past the boat slowly, mouth open wide. Another one approaches, and I swing my legs over the side and jump in. Moving clumsily through the water ...

Despite a threatening 3000 teeth arranged in 300 rows within the whale shark’s mouth, these teeth are tiny and neither ... of swimming close to the ocean’s surface leaves this shark open to injury ...

Here’s how it works. A orca tears open a whale shark and eats its liver off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, shocking new footage shows. The rare video reveals the orca swimming upside down ...

In Royer's video from Oahu, the whale shark can be seen luring small anchovies toward its huge open mouth. "While all the small nehu were being drawn to the surface from all the predators ...

But because of how whale sharks feed — by swimming mouth-open through swarms of zooplankton — “everyone though it was just accidental ingestion,” Meekan says. Carnivores typically can’t ...

“While all the small nehu were being drawn to the surface from all the predators, the whale shark was coming in and using its massive mouth to come up to the surface, open it, and then the ...

Whale sharks may also eat “standing up,” with their tail pointed to the ocean floor, in areas heavily populated with small fish. Opening and closing their mouth creates suction that pulls the ...