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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 days ago

Sharks now roam the open ocean. But for 200 million years, they only lived near the sea floor

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Sharks now roam the open ocean. But for 200 million years, they only lived near the sea floor

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Palaeontology 🦖@mander.xyzEnglish · 5 days ago
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A new study sheds light on how sharks colonised the oceans and became apex predators.
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    Sharks are not tasty, so they don’t matter much.

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      that’s what I thought about calamari but it just turns out most places just suck at cooking it and always overcook the piss out of them.

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      Shark is pretty tasty. A bit on the salty side, but tasty.

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        That really depends on the species.

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          I think that goes for most sea-creatures.

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    I, for one, welcome our new shark overlords

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    At first I thought the shark had a goatee.

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