whale sharks
Largest living fish
Whale sharks are the largest living fish, reaching lengths of forty feet or more.
Despite their size, they're filter feeders that consume plankton and small fish, posing no threat to humans.
The name combines their whale-like enormity with their classification as sharks: We swam alongside a whale shark in the Philippines.
- manta raysLarge flat cartilaginous fish
- big fishInfluential person or large swimmer
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
- scuba divingSwimming with air tanks
- copepodsMinute aquatic crustaceans
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- marine lifesea turtles, manatees, dolphins, moray eel, sea turtle
- tropical islandsatolls, coral islands, volcanic islands, lagoons, reefs
- filter feedersfilter feeder, filter feeders, filter feeding, manta ray, baleen
- nektondolphins, whales, sea turtles, swordfish, marlin
- Tropical SeasCaribbean Sea, Coral Sea, Andaman Sea, Arabian Sea, South China Sea
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Largest predatory fish
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Largest mammal on Earth
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