Footage shows a gigantic, adult, 1,653-pound great white shark getting tagged for research last month. The 13-foot, 9-inch predator, Contender, was tagged on Jan. 17 near the Florida-Georgia border, ...

Surfer.com reports that nine of the massive predators have been found washed up on beaches in the United States and Canada ...

Human-made structures act as artificial reefs, luring plankton and, in turn, Earth’s largest fish. That could put whale sharks at risk of ship strikes.

I just put my head in my hands and started praying that God wouldn’t take my life and I would live,” Rileigh Decker, 20, said through tears from her hospital bed. “It was very scary.” ...