At first glance, the world’s second largest fish might seem menacing: Its gaping mouth has six rows of teeth in its upper jaw, and nine rows below, for a total of about 1,500 tiny, hooked teeth.

Simon J Pierce Satellite tags attached to the whale sharks ... developing," he added. The whale shark, (Rhincodon typus), the world's largest fish, is classed as globally endangered on the RIUCN ...

It finds its food using its sense of smell, which is highly developed, and it’s thought this compensates for the shark being blind. The parasitic copepod ommatokoita elongata attaches itself to ...