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Measuring a Basking Shark in 1936

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Measuring a Basking Shark in 1936

Picture by: Unknown Picture taken on: August 3rd, 1936

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Biologists measure a basking shark. The basking shark is the second largest fish in the world, second only to another filter feeder, the whale shark.