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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Biology: Basking Shark


The basking shark is a cartilaginous fish. This shark is a coastal - palegic shark. It is found in all the world's temperate oceans. The basking shark is a generally harmless filter feeder. It filters zooplankton, small fish, and invertebrates. Basking sharks are ovoviviparous, meaning that animals develop within eggs that remain within the mother's body up until they hatch or are about to hatch. They have only caught one baskin shark that was pregnant and she was carrying six unborn. This is one of the largest known sharks, second only to the whale shark. A basking shark was measured and its total length was 12.27 meters (40.3 ft.) and was estimated to weigh around 19 tons.


7 comments:

Eboni y Yesenia said...

what a intrested research u hav!

ana torres said...

i like ur shark paragraph it was Interesting

Unknown said...

I don't like sharks but i like this one because its harmless.

♥♥♥Miss Charm's blog♥♥♥ said...

It was really interesting I learned alot from ur paragraph really nice pictures

cynthia's blog said...

i like the shark you pick it was intrested

sanyte said...

I like the facts you wrote about the shark.. but the shark itself is ugly.

CHARGERS said...

wow what a preety fish ;} why didn't u pick a preety fish i thought ly thingsu were allergic to ug