Animals Territory | Basking shark | The Basking shark
(Cetorhinus maximus) is the second largest living fish, after the whale
shark, and the second of three plankton-eating sharks, the other two
being the whale shark and megamouth shark. It is a cosmopolitan
migratory species, found in all the world's temperate oceans. It is a
slow moving filter feeder and has anatomical adaptations to filter
feeding.