Whale sharks are considered to be an endangered ... The scientists attribute this to the tiny “eye teeth” having a different purpose. Rather than making the animal faster in the water, the ...

At up to 33 feet (10 m) long, whale sharks are the biggest living species of fish in the world. But that's not what qualified them for a spot on this list. Instead, it's their eye-teeth.

The largest shark alive today is a gentle giant: the whale shark. These filter-feeders ... but 2016 research that dated the layers in the sharks' eye lenses found that the sharks were between ...

Filter-feeding sharks include whale sharks, megamouth sharks and basking sharks. These species have teeth, but they are largely vestigial - meaning they once served a purpose but over time the animal ...

The shark with the most teeth in its mouth is the whale shark, with a hair-raising 3000. Fortunately, the gentle giant isn’t using its superlative bite on humans. Though they’re the biggest ...

Teeth from sharks ... the biggest challenges in shark science is collecting samples from rare or protected species. Over the weekend, a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ashore at Dockweiler ...

Teeth from sharks ... the biggest challenges in shark science is collecting samples from rare or protected species. Over the weekend, a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ashore at Dockweiler ...

one of the whale shark's only defenses. "It's a huge animal that has very tiny teeth," says Francesca Pancaldi, a marine biologist at Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas and a co-author ...