As a slow-growing species that produces very few young, basking sharks are particularly vulnerable to extinction, which is why the animal is listed as endangered by the International Union for ...

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Speaking on Landward Dr Lucy Hawkes explained, “Basking sharks are big animals but they can also dive under the water and stay well out of sight for months and months of the year. “I guess ...

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They use more than 5,000 gill rakers to strain 25 kg of plankton from around 1.5 million litres of water per hour which is around the size of a swimming pool Basking sharks are found across the globe.