Opened in 2005, the Georgia Aquarium is a 600,000 square foot facility containing some 10 million gallons of fresh and salt water, making it the largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere. More on the ...

ATLANTA — It's getting to be very hot in Atlanta this week, and (for a couple more weeks, at least) kids are out of school. Few places offer accommodations to those two factors as well as the Georgia ...

Taroko the whale shark was euthanized after his health declined at the Georgia Aquarium, officials announced. Screengrab from the Georgia Aquarium’s Facebook post After he was rescued from a seafood ...

After he was rescued from a seafood market and brought to the Georgia Aquarium in 2007, Taroko the whale shark delighted millions of people who flocked to the facility to see the world's biggest fish ...