Few divers would give up the chance to swim with the two largest fish in the sea—whale sharks and basking sharks. Here's ...

Climate change may also affect plankton numbers. As a slow-growing species that produces very few young, basking sharks are particularly vulnerable to extinction, which is why the animal is listed ...

Over the course of their lives (which can last more than 100 years), whale sharks travel distances that can exceed the circumference of Earth.

Blue whales eat by filtering seawater through their comb-like baleen, pushing out water while keeping the plankton in their mouth. Unlike most sharks, basking sharks and whale sharks don't have ...

Most exciting recent discovery of an unknown shark: In 1976 and 1984, respectively, two specimens of a 15-foot-long, plankton-feeding shark were caught in the Pacific. These are the only two ...

They grow up to 5.5m (18ft) in length. They aren't much of a threat though: They eat plankton and only swim at about 2mph. 9. Megalodon: OK, so this shark became extinct 2.6 million years ago ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

According to Metro, whale sharks are filter feeders and won't eat any humans they encounter. They feed only on plankton and very small fish. "Tubbataha is a magical place and is basically a wide ...

They may not look as impressive as whales or sharks, but they are responsible for much of the food that we eat and even the air that we breathe. Plankton include lots of different kinds of living ...