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 at numerous coastal aggregation sites. An online database of whale shark encounters, identifying individuals on the basis of their unique skin patterning, captured almost 30,000 whale shark … Continue reading Undersea Constellations: The Global Biology of an Endangered Marine Megavertebrate Further Informed through Citizen Science