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A whale shark with remoras.

Summit on migratory species sides with science, throws shade on deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Feb 2024

In Indonesia, ‘opportunistic’ whale shark fishery shows gap in species protection

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2023
A researcher takes an ultrasound reading from a whale shark.

Uterine implants and underwater ultrasounds aim to demystify shark births

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Apr 2023
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos (commentary)

President Guillermo Lasso 13 Jan 2022

Beached whale shark in Indonesia reportedly cut up by locals to eat

Mongabay.com 30 Sep 2021

Sharks on a knife’s edge as Maldives mulls lifting 10-year fishing ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Apr 2021

From penguins to sharks to whales, swimming in circles is a surprisingly common trait

Basten Gokkon 26 Mar 2021

Mug shots and public pics join the dots of whale sharks’ Southeast Asian trips

Mongabay.com 28 May 2020

New species of shrimp-like creature found in a whale shark’s mouth

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2019

Education, compensation, and spiritual outreach protect threatened whale sharks

Tariq Engineer 14 Oct 2019

Thousands of sharks and rays are likely entangled in plastic polluting Earth’s oceans

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2019
A tourist boat in Donsol joins several others in search of whale sharks. Image by Nina Unlay.

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

Nina Unlay 28 Jun 2019
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Mobile app encourages Indian fishers to free entangled whale sharks

Vasudevan Sridharan 1 May 2019

You’re gonna need a smaller boat: Media obscures shrinking ‘newsworthy’ fish

John Cannon 5 Mar 2019

Madagascar: Where young whale sharks party

Nora Ward 31 Aug 2018

Tracking tools identify regional hubs of whale shark activity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 16 Aug 2018

Scientists say endangered whale sharks can live up to 130 years

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2018

‘Biological passports’ show whale sharks travel less than we thought

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2018

Longest recorded whale shark migration eclipses 20,000 kilometers

Mongabay.com 14 May 2018

Study reveals the Pacific Garbage Patch is much heftier than thought — and it’s growing

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2018

Microplastic pollution in world’s oceans poses major threat to filter-feeding megafauna

Mike Gaworecki 23 Mar 2018

‘Record’ number of migratory species protected at October wildlife summit

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2017

Whale sharks inch closer to extinction

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jul 2016

5 Tech Projects That Are Protecting Sharks

Taylor Robb-McCord 30 Jun 2016

Whale shark mapping: scientists uncover global distribution for the largest fish in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Aug 2013

Pictures of the day: sea turtle and whale shark release in China

Jeremy Hance 18 Jul 2012

Clever whale shark video goes viral

Jeremy Hance 17 Jul 2012

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