Discovered only recently, in 1976, the Megamouth shark was one of largest sharks to go undetected until the 20th century. Despite it's name, it is not a aggressive predator, the name derives from it's enormous mouth used to gape wide to filter feed on plankton. They are so rare that no one knows if it's in endangered or not. There is also insufficient data as to what shark family that it might belong to, with some scientists wanting to tie it to the basking shark. Needless to say, video footage is rare, below is a montage of shark videos, with megamouth included.
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