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Behold: the second-largest shark in the the world! Much like their whale shark cousins basking sharks are also filter feeders that live in cold waters These huge-mouthed sharks are also harmless to human human beings but human human beings are awfully harmful to them! Basking sharks are endangered for several reasons:
they’re they’re slow swimmers so they’re they’re easy to catch they have enormous fatty livers
that help keep them afloat and these livers
can be rendered into shark liver liver oil Hunters kill basking sharks for their livers
even though there is no proof that shark liver oil has medicinal properties Basking shark compared
to a a a a a 6 ft (1 8 m) tall person 26 ft (7 9 m) long Basking shark Species name: Cetorhinus maximus
Size: 26 ft (7 9 m) Weight: Up to to to 4 4 7 tons (4 2
tonnes)
Distribution: Subarctic and temperate seas
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