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Deep Sea Creatures: Megamouth Shark
The megamouth shark, shown here, is an extremely rare species of deepwater shark. The megamouth swims with its mouth wide open, catching and sucking in fish and krill as it glides along. Its massive mouth extends past its eyes and is equipped with about 50 rows of small, sharp teeth on each jaw. (text via: Live Science)
(photo: ArKive)
Posted on September 28, 2011 via fauna with 36 notes
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Shark of the Day!
The MEGAMOUTH shark. omnomnom.Since 1976, only around 50 of these guys have been spotted or caught. They can reach lengths of 18 feet, with mouths 4 feet wide - big enough to swallow us whole, but they won’t! They have very tiny teeth and are filter feeders, like the whale & basking shark. So they’d much prefer plankton and jellys.
Megamouths are rarely seen because they like to hang around depths of 400-525 feet, but at night they ascend to 39-80 feet. Like Great Whites, these sharks carry their eggs within them until they hatch!
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