NOUN
- large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface
How To Use basking shark In A Sentence
- No plankton means no basking sharks or manta rays but it also means exceedingly good visibility.
- The basking shark and whale shark are killed mainly for their fins and meat, and the great white shark for its jaws and teeth, he said.
- Strange creatures accustomed to deeper waters or warmer climes such as basking sharks, eagle rays, and bluefin tuna are increasingly being found around our shores.
- But it was a harmless basking shark, which eats only plankton. The Sun
- Basking sharks cruise slowly at about two knots with their mouths wide open, capturing tiny planktonic creatures in thousands of filters called gill rakers as the water passes through the gill slits.
- Divers have reported balleen wrasse, pollard, cod, bib and even basking sharks swimming around the frigate's passageways.
- So maybe his eyes will get pecked out by a bonxie, he'll be attacked by a basking shark, or BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
- How the areas will affect migratory fish, from cod to basking sharks, is less certain. Times, Sunday Times
- Not with you on this one, i reckon that a basking shark always has the option of swallowing a human whole. suggest an immediate cull with thruppence offered to every person who brings a basking shark tail to their nearest post office Basking in Ignorance
- These kayakers are stunned as a huge basking shark swims just feet from them. The Sun
