An enormous basking shark washed up on Gilgo Beach, Babylon. The shark was appeared on the sea shore on Tuesday and was barely alive. On Tuesday, that basking shark was sliced up by the researchers and its parts are expected to be send around the world as a sample. The shark was 26-foot long.

34-year-old Demian Chapman, an assistant professor at School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences in Stony Brook University said,

“It came in alive, wasn’t in good shape and died,”

Chapman also said,

“No one is allowed to kill basking sharks, an important species that researchers are eager to study,”

On importance of the sharks, he said,

“DNA from the shark’s biological samples will be used to study its movement, its backbone will be tested to determine its age and its reproductive organs will help determine its maturity.”

It is not clear yet that why the shark died. Researchers believed that the shark was ill or had been injured. According to state parks spokesman George Gorman, the task to determine the cause of its death has been given to The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.

“The dead shark weighed about a ton”

Tracy Marcus told The Associated Press.

Tracy of Cornell Cooperative Extension also said,

“it is unusual for ailing basking sharks to come ashore.”

Robert DiGiovanni, the director of the Riverhead Foundation said Chapman and other members cuts that shark in pieces about 3 p.m.. He said,

“We want to make this difficult process more manageable,”

DiGiovanni further said,

“It will take a couple of hours to cut it into smaller pieces for study, but the rest of the shark will become part of the ecosystem.”

On the beach, a huge crowd gathered there and snapped the shark with their camera phones.

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