The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

Basking Shark season tends to be May or October, and there are a few hotspots around the British Isles where you'll most ...

Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper ...

Sharks mostly eat other marine animals, often invertebrates, or plankton. Their diet consists of small fish, mollusks, crustaceans and sometimes bigger species like dolphins or sea lions. Most ...

Plankton Can Run, But Can't Hide From Basking Sharks Date: July 21, 2005 Source: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Summary: Basking sharks are much more canny predators than previously thought, ecologists ...

And, at about 100 million years old, “Pseudomegachasma represents the oldest known plankton-feeding shark in the fossil record that evolved independent of the four known lineages of modern-day ...

It appeared the sharks were feeding, attempting to catch plankton that were swimming near Allen. Jacob Allen Adventure/Kennedy News “It was clearly close enough to know I was there,” he said ...

Plankton are the flotsam of tiny plants and shrimplike animals that float in the ocean. The whale shark just opens its mouth — about twice the size of a manhole cover — and sucks them in.

WASHINGTON – About 93 million years ago, a bizarre plankton-eating shark shaped unlike any other known marine creature glided through the sea in what is now northeastern Mexico using curiousl… ...

A new clade of putative plankton-feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 2015; 35 (5): e981335 DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.981335 ...

No other whale shark has ever been observed to migrate that far. Whale sharks are filter feeders, eating plankton, fish eggs, krill, and crab larvae as well as small squid and fish that enter ...

About 93 million years ago, a bizarre plankton-eating shark shaped unlike any other known marine creature glided through the sea in what is now northeastern Mexico using curiously elongated wing ...