Imagine how racist that shark must be
“Oppressors are way too soft these days. Colonizers from back in my day knew how to handle indigenous populations - biological warfare and slavery.”
Biological warfare is a freebie because Natives typically didn’t have resistance built up that Europeans got from the black plague.
It’s my understanding the black plague was simply brought about by filthy living conditions in cities.
Animal agriculture continues to this day to be one of the largest breeders of disease (see practically any E. Coli or salmonella recall in leafey greens — almost always due to animal runoff).
The old world lucked out in having a good number of dumb docile animals to domesticate, so it went hardcore on animal agriculture. As such they got exposed to a lot of disease.
The new world, not so much. We got some big game, but most of it was not something easy to domesticate. Either too aggressive, too hard to contain, or both. So they didn’t get the animal agriculture or the generations of fighting various disease that go along with it.
Do you think farming animals was a significant contributor to the black plague?
It’s my understanding it was spread primarily by rats, who thrived in the filthy conditions within cities and shipping vessels.
Specifically the black plague, no. But you also don’t get cities to the scale of European ones without agriculture. Especially back then. Globalism and processed foods have made a vegetarian/vegan diet sustainable year round for practically anyone. That was also very difficult in a lot of places for a lot of history.
Yes, times are changing.
“too many damn land animals in our waters these days. Back in my day you wouldn’t see a land animal down here unless them Krakens started kraken their ship down here, damn Landers”
This is really cool, but I’m not so sure about the source.
Choice quote: “Previously, scientists used the size of the animal to determine their length.”
That and snopes debunked it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/512-year-old-shark/
Between 272 and 512 years old. Still freaking old.
Surely the age of the animal was similarly determined from the age.
You can tell that it’s a Greenland shark because of the way it is.
I read that part three times to make sure it wasn’t me miss reading.
Oi’ll tell ye, when me miss is readin’ oi steer well clear of 'er.
From context it’s quite clear that “length” was supposed to say “age”. Seems more like an accidental mix up of words rather than bad source material.
Yeah, I know what they were trying to say. The whole thing reads like a middle school research essay though, it’s completely full of errors and very strange word choice. That wasn’t even the only error in that one sentence I quoted. Regardless, it’s a very cool topic, just the source (the website, not the research) is a bit questionable.
Granted, I’m usually too critical this early in the morning.
Never mind, they have right-click protection on their site. Very questionable indeed.
Well, to be clear, analyzing an animals size is one way to determine its length.
Lets make it a candidate for US president or a senator. Does it still qualify to become a LA Laker?
If you were born in America before America was America, are you still American?
Can’t be President. Senator is still on the table though.
That shark has seen some shit
Mostly fish shit.
Theres no way that thing still “sees” anything
That shark has experienced some shit!
Iirc half of them are blind due to parasites in the eyes.
They don’t really mention how they get samples of eye lenses to perform the dating.
Retrieving samples would be the last thing on my mind if I was dating a shark. I’d be preoccupied choosing an appropriate appetizer and getting that silver fox back to my underwater cave.
Grandpa shark do do do do do do
Look how soft and cuddly those eyes are
Is the preview picture… not showing a shark to anyone else? I clicked on the article and didn’t see this picture there either.
Looks like Luchador Bowser to me.
Related articles: Bowser is 513 years old, beating out an old shark
I just assumed the shark is a luchador.
Wow, I didn’t know luchadors could make it past 500.
kbin does that now and then.
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Australians try not to be racist challenge (impossible)
People that live in China and who follow traditional Chinese medicine but who may not be ethnically Chinese try not to consume an endangered species challenge (impossible)
