The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second largest living fish, after the whale shark, and the second of three plankton-eating sharks.

It is a slow moving filter feeder and has anatomical adaptations to filter feeding, such as a greatly enlarged mouth and highly developed gill rakers.

The largest accurately-measured specimen was trapped in a herring net in the Bay of Fundy, Canada in 1851. Its total length was 12.27 metres (40.3 ft), and it weighed an estimated 19 tonnes (19 long tons; 21 short tons).

Good thing it just eats plankton, because anything with a mouth that enormous that is also a shark, well, normally that’s something one would be recommended to avoid.

Basking sharks don’t have many enemies due to their size, with the only confirmed predator of these being – unsurprisingly – orcas.

Via Wikipedia.