How Many Whale Sharks Do You Know?

Astronomers use models to count stars and photographs taken by telescopes. Marine biologists borrowed it to help count whale sharks in the ocean. The method helps them keep the sharks straight as they count, because their patterns are unique to every individual. So how many whale sharks do they count from the earth? We've been able to count up to 400 of them. 400 sharks just in one place. It looks like the sea is just crawling with sharks. Raphael published a scientific paper with the title, an unprecedented aggregation of whale sharks. No one had ever seen a gathering that big, but setting a whale shark record.