A new study found that a killer whale pod in Mexico is attacking much larger whale sharks from below to debilitate them. This ...

Killer whales off Mexico have developed coordinated hunting skills to take down whale sharks, adding to their reputation as ...

Orcas in Mexico's Gulf of California are hunting whale sharks using a highly specialized set of strategies to attack them.

For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of orcas cooperatively hunting whale sharks, the largest species ...

“The whale shark has the smallest brain compared to body mass. The brain is the size of an egg,” said Francesca Pancaldi, ...

Home to over 500 different species of fish, the elusive (and rather massive) whale shark is arguably the face of the whole region as they annually aggregate here between April to August each year.

“The whale shark has the smallest brain compared to ... big fish that is very slow compared with other sharks. It has tiny, tiny teeth that it doesn’t use as a defense mechanism,” Pancaldi ...

Sharks have roamed the open seas for close to half a billion years and have witnessed the Earth’s evolution from a primordial ...

“The whale shark has the smallest brain compared to ... big fish that is very slow compared with other sharks. It has tiny, tiny teeth that it doesn’t use as a defense mechanism,” Pancaldi ...

That’s 10,000-odd tons of dead whale that wasn’t floating around out there 50 years ago. White sharks might be slow breeders, but conditions have been favourable. When you add tightly managed ...