Human impacts
Industrialized shipping (literally) impacts whale sharks
The world’s largest fish suffered a mysterious decline. Researchers embarked on a global tracking project to find out why. Reference:…
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Conservation
The Regenerative Power of Whale Sharks
How fast can a whale shark heal from a wound? For the first time, researchers look deeper at the healing…
Biology
How scientists use our nuclear past to understand whale shark life history
To properly conserve and manage species, scientists need to understand how they live, grow, and age. But even figuring that…
Sharkbites Saturday
Citizen Science and Undersea Stars: The Value of Photographs to Global Megafauna Biology
Check out this article about how tourist pictures of whale sharks are helping scientists learn about whale shark populations around…
Biology Genetics genomics Methodology
Exciting strides for eDNA: Insights into whale shark population genetics
In the past few decades scientists have found new and exciting ways to use DNA to answer scientific questions. There…