Related: Labrador Retriever's 'Mythical' Meeting with Massive Whale Shark Looks Like a Scene Straight ... that it was cutting into its skin by its gills.” The plastic wrapper looked like packing ...

And they have five, six, or seven gill slits per side ... These sharks are ovoviparous (born live from an egg). Largest Shark: The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is the largest fish in the world ...

They filter out tiny animals like krill and plankton from the seawater, swallowing the food and expelling the water through their gills. Like all sharks, whale sharks don’t have bones ...

Like baleen whales, whale sharks are filter feeders. They can either actively suck food into their mouths or use passive ram filtration – where they slowly swim open-mouthed through patches of food.

“The Whale Who Wanted to Be Small ... she began working on the shark book, “The Shark Who Learned His Lesson.” Over the years, Gill has continued writing and illustrating her stories ...