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Whale sharks

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April 26, 2018

Close-up of whale shark
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Whale shark encounter off Caribbean coast of Panama. This fish was about 16-18 feet in length but whale sharks can grow to 40 feet and are the largest fish.
 
Photo by Sam Farkas / Credit: NOAA OAR 2014 Photo Contest

 

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    Little is known about the world’s largest living fish, gentle giants reaching 12 meters (40 feet) in length. Researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and colleagues tracked a female whale shark from the eastern Pacific to the western Indo-Pacific for 20,142 kilometers (more than 12,000 miles), the longest whale shark migration route ever recorded.
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