Although the whale shark Rhincodon typus is the largest extant fish, it was not described
until 1828 and by 1986 there were only 320 records of this species. Since then, growth in …

Many elasmobranchs have experienced strong population declines, which have been
largely attributed to the direct and indirect effects of exploitation. Recently, however, live …

Population genetic data can provide valuable information on the demography of a species.
For rare and elusive marine megafauna, samples for generating the data are traditionally …

Dried gill plates from manta and devil rays, some of the world's most biologically vulnerable
fishes, have become a valued commodity in Asian dried‐seafood and traditional Chinese …

We describe the real-time movements of the last of the marine mega-vertebrate taxa to be
satellite tracked–the giant manta ray (or devil fish, Manta birostris), the world's largest ray at …

The whale shark is an ideal flagship species for citizen science projects because of its
charismatic nature, its size, and the associated ecotourism ventures focusing on the species …

Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are known to aggregate to feed in a small number of
locations in tropical and subtropical waters. Here we document a newly discovered major …

Despite being identified as a driver of mobile predator aggregations (hotspots) in both
marine and terrestrial environments, topographic complexity has long remained a …

Activity patterns of animals often relate to environmental variables such as food availability
and predation pressure. Technological advances are providing us with new tools to monitor …

Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, aggregate by the hundreds in a summer feeding area off
the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, where the Gulf of Mexico meets the Caribbean …