Measuring up to a record 18 metres, the whale shark is not only the largest shark, but the largest fish in the world. Steve dives with this gargantuan shark off the coast of Mozambique in Africa.

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

While the whale shark is certainly a big animal, it is considerably smaller than the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, which is the biggest animal in the world. The largest blue whale ever recorded ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

In the middle of the waters, more than 35km off the coast of Sanary-sur-Mer, in the Var in France, the carcass of the whale ...

Photos and videos show it partially submerged in the shallow water. In order to free the creature — which is a subspecies of blue whale — officials set about dismantling part of the wharf.

we have had at least five in previous years with similar characteristics and DNA analysis shows a completely different profile from a fin whale and that has been described as a hybrid of a blue ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...

Aquarium enthusiasts in China were left shocked when they discovered that a much-hyped giant whale shark on display was ... didn’t have one at all than show a fake one,” a Chinese social ...

But many were left feeling short-changed after its star whale shark turned out to be a mechanical likeness. Snaps taken through the large tank's glass show how the specimen is clearly a man-made ...