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By Wesley Holmes & Charlie Duffield The remains of a giant basking shark have been found washed up on a UK beach. The carcass was discovered at 9am on Friday, January 5 on the sand banks close to Fort Perch Rock, at the mouth of Liverpool Bay. At 15ft long the carcass was found by New Brighton local Stephen Davies, 72, whilst he was out on his morning run, The Liverpool Echo reports. He said: “I was running on the beach and thought ‘what’s that?’ because it looked quite big. I was talking to a fisherman who said it was a basking shark, which I don’t think are fairly common around here, but it …

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