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White sharks have historically been found off Cape Cod, but due to fishing pressures, the population may have declined as much as 80% before the species gained federal protection in 1997 and 2005 ...
"LOOK: Megamouth shark found dead in Southern Leyte". ABS-CBN News. The shark had multiple wounds that were believed to be the cause of death 64: 11 February 2018: 18.5 km off Bayawan, Negros Oriental, Philippines? TL: 4.34 m: Died after accidentally getting caught in drift nets: Buried along shoreline: Partlow, Mary Judaline (12 February 2018).
Conversely the increase in baleen whale size may have contributed to the extinction of megalodon, as they may have preferred to go after smaller whales; bite marks on large whale species may have come from scavenging sharks. Megalodon may have simply become coextinct with smaller whale species, such as Piscobalaena nana. [109]
The megamouth shark is an extremely rare species of deepwater shark, and the smallest of the three filter-feeding sharks. Since its discovery in 1976, only a few megamouth sharks have been seen, with 55 specimens known to have been caught or sighted as of 2012, including three recordings on film.
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