The majority of whale sharks in a global tourism hotspot suffer from human-inflicted scarring, new research has revealed. Between 2010 and 2023, a team of international scientists studied whale sharks ...

Between 2010 and 2023, researchers in Indonesia studied over 200 endangered whale sharks and found that a significant number had scars and injuries caused by human activity. An international team of ...

Whale sharks, the largest living fish species, are classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Over the past 75 years, populations have declined by more than 50% worldwide, ...

A widely publicized killer whale attack once seemed to explain why white sharks disappeared from a key aggregation site. Long-term tracking now suggests the reality is more nuanced. Killer whales (Orc ...

The majority of whale sharks in a marine tourism hotspot off Indonesia have human-caused scars, according to a new study. Photo from NOAA, UnSplash The majority of whale sharks in a global tourism ...