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BLUE SHARK: 1  about 12 feet long. 2  sleek, tapered body. 3  among the fastest swimming sharks and can even leap out of the water. 4  diet consists mostly of squid, but it will eat almost anything.
Paradoxically, the two largest species of shark, that make also the largest fish species, are harmless for people, being plankton feeders, like the whales: the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) (up to 20 m (66 ft) long and 34 tonnes in weight), basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) (up to 9.8 m (33 ft) long and 4 tonnes).