Simon Pierce, who has studied whale sharks globally, said he has photographed suspected mating scars on female sharks in St.

"As far as I know, no one has filmed a gray whale giving birth or even seen it before," Dave Anderson, owner of Capt. Dave's Dolphin & Whale Watching Safari, shared in a statement to PEOPLE Ingrid ...

Scientists say they need to know where the sharks are mating and giving birth so they can protect ... and get into mating position. Suspected whale shark mating behavior has also been reported ...

In 1996, a paper documented the case of a whale shark that was dubbed a ‘megamamma’. The animal, which was harpooned off the coast of Taiwan, was carrying around 300 embryos. Many of the baby sharks ...

This sighting confirmed that the mother whale — which scientists spotted entangled earlier this year but couldn't free — gave birth to her calf while trapped in the rope. Clay George ...

Lemon sharks are viviparous, in that they give birth ... shark. The mother will risk stranding herself in shallow waters to get as close as she can to the edge of a mangrove forest to give birth ...

Marine biologist Nan Hauser says a 50,000lb (22,700kg) humpback whale protected her from a tiger shark during a recent research expedition in the Cook Islands. She believes it could be the first ...