7 February 2012

Fishermen in Pakistan reeled in a massive 40-foot whale shark Tuesday and sold it for a tidy $18,750, The Express Tribune newspaper reports. The largest confirmed whale shark on record was 41 feet long, according to ABCNews.com
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13 January 2012

Kelso’s Neil Cuffe and sons Ryan, 23, and Lachlan, 20, had perfect conditions for viewing the 5.2m whale shark at Slasher’s Reef, off Townsville, last Friday.

13 January 2012

She may be confined to a restaurant aquarium in the middle of the desert, and far from any males, but a female zebra shark “Zebedee”, has experienced “four straight years of ‘virgin’, births, a feat never documented before,” according to marine biologist David Robinson.

13 January 2012

FROM the shore, the group of small boats appeared to be doing the right thing – herding a shark that had swum into the long shallow channel back safely out to sea.

12 January 2012

Talk-show host Rosie O’Donnell has enraged environmentalists after being pictured with a dead hammerhead shark caught off the South Florida coast during a family fishing trip.

12 January 2012

Scientists are facing a riddle. For two years, researchers at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama have been studying the diets of Tiger Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico and they found that the sharks not only eat sea creatures…

11 January 2012

ONE of the more colorful interpretations of the new tourism promotion slogan for the Philippines shows a diver swimming behind a whale shark, with this slogan: “Chasing tail. More fun in the Philippines.”

11 January 2012

Investigations have begun into the cargo ship sinking on Christmas Island but environmentalists say there should be an investigation into the port authority’s decision to allow the ship to moor.

10 January 2012

It is the biggest shark in the world, but marine biologists warn that humans getting too close could pose a greater danger to them than us.

10 January 2012

The Sabah government will impose heavy penalties on shark hunters from this year, said state Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun.