Whale sharks. Are they whales? Are they sharks? This amazing creature is actually a shark. It is called a whale shark due to ...

Like baleen whales, whale sharks are filter feeders. They can either actively suck food into their mouths or use passive ram filtration – where they slowly swim open-mouthed through patches of food.

A deep-sea discovery turns frightening as a submarine crew finds aggressive sixgill sharks feasting on a whale carcass and ...

And they have five, six, or seven gill slits per side ... These sharks are ovoviparous (born live from an egg). Largest Shark: The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is the largest fish in the world ...

the whale sharks sucked it in with seawater as they made a violent noise. Whale sharks filter feed with sieve-like structures and expel water through the gills.