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Basking sharks can weigh more than 5,000 kilograms while surviving primarily on plankton blooms.
The basking shark can reach lengths exceeding 10 meters, making it the second largest fish alive after the whale shark. Despite its enormous size and cavernous mouth, it feeds almost exclusively on microscopic plankton.
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A 10-meter fish filtering organisms smaller than a grain of rice overturns the expectation that giant predators must hunt large prey. Instead, it swims slowly with its mouth open, sieving thousands of liters of water per hour.
Its paradoxical combination of gigantic body mass and microscopic diet highlights how marine ecosystems can channel vast energy flows into animals that look terrifying but pose no threat to humans.
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