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The species name pelagios refers to its open-ocean habitat.
The megamouth shark’s head is disproportionately large, with its mouth spanning a significant fraction of total body length. In some specimens, the gape width approaches one meter, dominating the animal’s frontal profile.
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A five-meter body culminates in a cavernous opening that appears oversized even relative to giant sharks. The scale imbalance emphasizes its singular feeding specialization.
Such exaggerated cranial proportions reveal evolutionary prioritization of filtration over speed or aggression, reshaping the classic shark silhouette into something closer to a living intake valve.
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