A study has revealed that basking sharks can maintain their body temperature above their surroundings – an ability only known in a few species of fish.
Basking sharks can maintain a body temperature that is higher than their environment, putting them among a small group of fish species that are warm-blooded.
Out of around 35,000 species of fish, only 35 are known to have the ability to generate or maintain the temperature in certain parts of their body, perhaps because it is so difficult to retain body heat in the water. They include great white and mako sharks, for whom body heat
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