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The species name Megachasma translates roughly to large cavernous mouth.
The megamouth shark’s jaw joints and soft tissues allow dramatic gape expansion, enabling intake of large volumes of plankton-rich water. The flexible lips and jaw structure accommodate repeated wide opening without structural strain.
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At full expansion, the gape can approach one meter across, transforming the shark’s head into a near-circular intake. Few vertebrates display such extreme proportional mouth expansion.
This mechanical flexibility underpins the entire feeding strategy, converting a broad head into a high-capacity filtration chamber capable of sustaining extraordinary body mass.
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