While the whale shark is certainly a big animal, it’s considerably smaller than the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, which is the biggest animal in the world. The largest blue whale ever recorded ...

The whale shark isn’t just the largest fish in the world, it’s the largest animal that’s not a cetacean. The average length ...

In comparison, the largest whale shark recorded was 61.7 feet long, and the average weight is around 41,000 pounds, or 20 tons. Megalodons are larger than whale sharks, but the largest shark alive ...

Measuring up to a record 18 metres, the whale shark is not only the largest shark, but the largest fish in the world. Steve dives with this gargantuan shark off the coast of Mozambique in Africa.

three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark. It may have been comparable in length to today's biggest whale sharks, the largest of which has measured in at 18.8 metres. Without a ...

The Karachi press reports the largest confirmed whale-shark was 41 feet long, but experts say whale sharks can grow much longer and larger than that. A whale shark caught off Anping Tainan County ...

The biggest fish in the sea, a whale shark can weigh many tons and grow ... A marine biologist named Eric Hoffmayer recorded the deepest dive yet: in 2008, he monitored a shark in the Gulf of ...

That's way bigger than the basking shark, the biggest fish in the UK. It's bigger than the biggest whale shark, which is the largest fish found on our planet today. In fact, it's closer in ...