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  2. List of largest fish - Wikipedia

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    These tropical, small sharks are noted for their broad head shape. The largest species is the Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) of Australasian waters, at up to 1.65 m (5.4 ft) long and weighing up to 20 kg (44 lb). [35] Mackerel sharks (Lamniformes) The dramatically large mouth of the basking shark, the second largest living fish

  3. Basking shark - Wikipedia

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    The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, [4] after the whale shark. It is one of three plankton-eating shark species, along with the whale shark and megamouth shark. Typically, basking sharks reach 7.9 m (26 ft) in length.

  4. List of longest fish - Wikipedia

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    10: Great white shark: Carcharodon carcharias: 7.1 (disputed) [10] [11] [12] 11: Pacific sleeper shark: Somniosus pacificus: 7 [13] 12: Common thresher shark: Alopias vulpinus: 6.5 [14] 13: Goblin shark: Mitsukurina owstoni: 6.2 [15] 14: Great hammerhead shark: Sphyrna mokarran: 6.1 [16] 15: White sturgeon: Acipenser transmontanus: 6.1 [17] 16 ...

  5. World's biggest sharks find a new home - AOL

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    The biggest fish in the sea is taking to new waters. The whale shark can reach more than 40 feet in length and weigh up to 47,000 pounds! But these massive beings are actually quite harmless ...

  6. Great white shark - Wikipedia

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    For decades, many ichthyological works, as well as the Guinness Book of World Records, listed two great white sharks as the largest individuals: In the 1870s, a 10.9 m (36 ft) great white captured in southern Australian waters, near Port Fairy, and an 11.3 m (37 ft) shark trapped in a herring weir in New Brunswick, Canada, in the 1930s. However ...

  7. List of sharks - Wikipedia

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    The first shark-like chondrichthyans appeared in the oceans 400 million years ago, [1] developing into the crown group of sharks by the Early Jurassic. [2] Listed below are extant species of shark. Sharks are spread across 512 described and 23 undescribed species in eight orders. The families and genera within the orders are listed in ...

  8. Killer Whales Are Hunting Whale Sharks — the Largest Fish in ...

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    Orcas — also known as killer whales — are once again on the offensive. Their new target is whale sharks, the world's largest fish species. According to CNN, a new study — published in the ...

  9. One of the biggest great white sharks ever caught on tape - AOL

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    She is one of the biggest great white sharks ever filmed and. Nicknamed 'Deep Blue,' this great white is almost as long as the 22-foot-long boat the researchers were aboard near Guadalupe, Mexico ...