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A rare megamouth shark just washed up in the Philippines

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The recent spate of strange shark sightings just keeps going. Today, a rubbery-lipped, 15-ft. (4.5 m) beastie washed up on a beach in the Philippines. The creature turned out to be a megamouth shark—a species so rare that Christopher Bird, a marine zoologist and blogger, has estimated it’s only the 60th confirmed human encounter with one.

Before 1976, no one had any idea megamouths existed (officially, at least). It was in Hawaii that year that a 14.6-footer gulped down a submerged parachute filled with sand, which a US Navy ship was using as an anchor. Scientists were as baffled as the crewmen: though loosely related to two other, mostly vegetarian, shark behemoths—the whale shark and the basking shark—the creature belonged to a previously unrecognized family, genus, and species.

Its family tree has something to do with its comically gaping maw. Like whale and basking sharks, megamouths are filter feeders; their big mouths helps them suck up all the plankton and jellyfish they need. As Bird notes, some scientists hypothesize the megamouth’s mouth, which is both reflective and lined with a bioluminescent patch, lures the animal’s prey.



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They reckon these Dudes survive on plankton, as do many other species...


have a look at this ...............


http://site.canadianbusiness.com/longform/something-in-the-water/


scroll down for a vid



we get big basking sharks not far from here, massive beasts surviving off millions of little creatures.

(shit,................... sounds like Apple Corp):roll:
 
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