🤯 Did You Know (click to read)
The largest recorded sixgill sharks rival great whites in overall length.
Bluntnose sixgill sharks can exceed 16 feet in length and weigh more than 1,300 pounds, making them one of the largest predatory sharks alive today. Unlike fast coastal species, their massive bodies evolved for slow, energy-efficient cruising in cold, food-scarce depths.
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In an environment where meals may be weeks apart, their enormous size allows them to consume large prey such as fish, rays, and even other sharks in a single feeding event. Their bulk also helps conserve heat in near-freezing waters thousands of feet below the surface.
Gigantism in the deep sea challenges assumptions that extreme environments favor small life. The sixgill proves that even in crushing darkness, evolution can produce apex predators rivaling the largest sharks nearer the surface.
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