CollectA’s Basking Shark is painted with brown-grey hues and sculpted with its mouth wide, showcasing the white skeleton of the inside of its huge jaw. This megamouth shark typically swims through the water in a gliding fashion with its mouth wide open, collecting yummy plankton as it goes. The Basking Shark is a non-aggressive, placid marine monster, and is the second largest shark, after the whale shark.

Fun Fact:

• The Basking Shark is the second largest fish in the world. Despite the intimidating impression, basking sharks are quite harmless. They are filter feeders that eat tiny, planktonic prey. Many biological aspects of the basking sharks are still a complete mystery. Their gill rakers - a shedable filter structure in their mouths designed to strain plankton from the water - is a puzzle to scientists.

Approx. 22.5 x 9.8 x 7 cm (LWH)