Close up of the head and mouth of the whale shark feeding at the ocean surface. The mouth is wide open with pilot fish swimming underneath. The eye looks directly at the camera.
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Mote scientists tag two whale sharks off southwest Florida

June 20, 2018 | mote

Written by Stephanie Hagan Thanks to whale shark sightings reported by the public off the southwest Florida coast in early June, scientists from Mote Marine Laboratory located five of the polka-dotted, filter-feeding giants and tagged two of them with tracking devices on the afternoon of June 14. All...