Massive Great White

[BorneanTiger]

@GuateGojira @Shadow @Pckts @epaiva Unless that shark is a hybrid between the great white and basking sharks, hence why it has features of both species (like the white underside, which would be seen in Great Whites, but not basking sharks, and because the white colour is visible from different angles, I rule out the possibility of it being a light-trick), and why Ben Wigren didn't say that it is "certainly" a basking shark, but "most certainly" a basking shark, hence he didn't fully refute the claim by J. B. Currell, rather, he mostly rejected it:
               

Regular great whites (note the white undersides):

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Regular basking sharks (no white undersides):

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In 2012, off the coast of Australia, 57 sharks along 2,000 miles (1,240 miles) of coastline were discovered, and they were generations which descended from the mating of common (Carcharhinus limbatus) and the Australian blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus tilstoni): https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/...story.html, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne...ralia.html, https://www.seeker.com/first-hybrid-shar...75695.html, https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0...al-warming

Hybrid blacktip shark; credit: University of Queensland

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