Talk:Basking shark

message: I seem to recall watching a documentary on the BBC many years ago which mentioned that the liver oil possessed unusual properties which made it useful in hydraulic systems used in high altitude military aircraft in the 1950s, the Vulcan bomber as I remember. Can anyone confirm that?    — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.109.182 (talk) 16:38, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Liver oil

message: The list of names given as "later described as" looks to me like a formal taxonomic synonymy. A couple of them are trinomials, which implies that the authors were describing a separate subspecies now thought not to be distinct enough to recognize. Some authors may not have "described" it at all, but merely renamed it. If we're going to mention the synonymy, a more tabular and less confusing presentation might be preferable. Myopic Bookworm (talk) 14:54, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synonymy 

message: Does anyone have a reference for this sentence:
The seemingly useless teeth of basking sharks may play a role in courtship behaviour, possibly as a means for the male to keep hold of the female during mating.
If not, I would suggest it be removed. OliAtlason (talk) 04:06, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Can not find any reference that agrees, found another that states that they might be used before birth to eat eggs, added that and the ref. --Stefan talk 06:00, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for checking it ! OliAtlason (talk) 15:24, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unusual assertion 

message: In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :) 
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thread_title:  Bot report : Found duplicate references ! 

message: Can someone add some information about the new winter habitat of the sharks. A possible reference:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/baskingshark/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.181.233.143 (talk) 22:06, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Information on Habitats 

message: Removed this per WP:CRYSTAL -
"Like other large sharks, basking sharks could some day be at  risk of extinction due to a combination of low resilience and overfishing if good conservation practices are not followed."
Any species you can name could someday be at risk of extinction due to something or other. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 17:08, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:CRYSTAL]]

message: "some have disappeared and others need protection." - Some what - subspecies? Populations? --Chriswaterguy talk 23:12, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some have disappeared? 

message: This article was written in British English, and unless there is good reason to change it, should stay there. --John (talk) 09:13, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Engvar 

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message: In  John Steinbeck's Log From The Sea of Cortez he speaks of a "sea monster" washed up on the beach near Monterey, CA. That is, the locals wanted it to be a sea-monster, but when they inspected it, they found a note pinned to its head:
" Don’t worry about it, it’s a basking shark. [Signed] Dr. Rolph Bolin of the Hopkins Marine Station.” Dr. Bolin’s.. kindness was a blow to the people of Monterey. They so wanted it to be a sea-serpent. Even we hoped it would be. When sometimes a true sea-serpent, complete and undecayed, is found and caught, a shout of triumph will go through the world. “There, you see, ” men will say, “I knew they were there all the time. I just had a feeling they were there.”  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:E94D:7AF:72E1:1934 (talk) 08:22, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steinbeck and the Sea Monster. 

message: regarding this edit, do you have access to the source and know it says 16 tons and not 19 tons? Or is this from another reference? Rhinopias (talk) 21:03, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, thanks! Rhinopias (talk) 21:17, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Record weight 

message: The earliest reference I could find for that 12.2 m (40 ft) basking shark caught off Eastern Canada in August 1851 is Moses Henry Perley's Reports on the sea and river fisheries of New Brunswick (1852, pp. 222-223). He doesn't state how it was measured though, so why does the article state that it is the "largest accurately measured specimen"? I don't think a website without references and anything Gerald Wood claims should be considered reliable sources. Other secondary sources (every book I've read on sharks) that mention this specimen just seem to repeat each other. Does anyone know of a source that mentions how this specimen was measured? OM2003 (talk) 21:06, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest reliably measured  

message: What is known aboiut breesing and reproduction of this  species? Crawiki (talk) 18:51, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reproduction 

message: Basking sharks are both the only plankton-filtrating sharks which filter passively AND do so with REMODELED PLACOID SCALES ON their gill arches instead of remodeled gill rakers ("Kiemenreusendornen" in german, respectively) - that, indeed "resembles the comb-like gillraker structure found in bony fishes"
I want to convince you by looking at the awesome study (indeed, the abstract would be enough) carried out by Paig-Tran in 2013:
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ar.22850
"Basking  sharks  have branchial filters that lack a cartilaginous core; instead they are composedentirely  of  smooth  keratin." - remodeled gill rakers as found in Rhincodon typus, Megachasma pelagios and all eleven species of Mobula remain with this cartilaginous core as a link to their origin as part of the branchial arches.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BlueTuraco99 (talk • contribs) 13:55, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basking sharks do NOT filter with gill rakers sensu strictu! 

message: I was lucky enough to see basking shark breach around 1978. It happened just off the Isle of Arran on the west coast of Scotland where basking sharks were common at the time. I was walking a coastal path when a shark twice leapt clear of the water about 50m off the shore. It than swam away with the characteristic slow stroke, its dorsal and tail fins showing above the surface. Addie 2020 (talk) 07:25, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool. Only if you have reliable sources can you add it to the article. Edward-Woodrow :) [talk] Edward-Woodrow :) [talk] 20:13, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breaching