A really big sea creature, like a giant shark, washed up on a beach in the UK on January 5th. A man who was running on the beach saw it first. The creature was a basking shark, usually seen in the summer in certain parts of England, Wales, the Isle of Man, and Scotland.
The man, Stephen Davies, said he had never seen anything like it before. Basking sharks are the second biggest fish in the UK. The Wildlife Trust thinks the one found on the beach was a young shark, even though it was already 15 feet long. Grown-up basking sharks can be really huge, up to 40 feet long and weigh as much as six tonnes.
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The Wildlife Trust mentioned that we don’t know much about these big sharks. They can travel long distances in winter, and some have been found near the Azores and even Newfoundland.
The Coastguard told a group called the British Divers Marine Life Rescue about the dead shark on the beach. A person from that group, Chris Cureton, went to check it out. He noticed the shark’s second dorsal fin and said the head was decomposed, but there were no signs of a shark with teeth. The tail had bones, which is different from a whale, which would have more flesh.
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