Whale sharks given a health check with #ultrasound imaging technique https://phys.org/news/2024-07-whale-sharks-health-ultrasound-imaging.html

Internal organs and body tissues of free-swimming whale sharks imaged using underwater ultrasound https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1285429/full

"when they started to scrape the parasitic #copepods off their lips, the whale #sharks slowed down, hung vertically in the water and treated them like giant cleaner #fish... While the #WhaleSharks were in this position, the researchers were able to use underwater ultrasound"