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Dying shark washes up on Gilgo beach

Eager to scrutinize a species with few samples available for study, researchers Tuesday sliced up the carcass of an enormous basking shark that washed up on Gilgo Beach in Babylon, with plans to send samples of the animal around the world.

The barely alive 26-foot shark startled beachgoers when it appeared on shore Tuesday.

"It came in alive, wasn't in good shape and died," said Demian...

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