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[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 64 points 1 week ago

Very cool story, but also pretty sad how they were able to make the discovery:

For the study, the team examined 28 sharks that had died after being caught as by-catch in fishing nets. While there is some uncertainty in the age estimates, Nielsen stated that the most likely age for the oldest shark was about 390 years, with a 95 percent certainty range of 272 to 512 years.

Imagine surviving almost 400 years to die in a net just so that some hairless apes (humans) who are going to die relatively soon anyways can make more money that they don’t really need.

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago

Older than capitalism

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So this is the species of shark that's toxic for humans to eat unless they bury it in the ground and then hang it to dry for 5 months. I do not condone the killing of sharks, especially a versatile eater like the Greenland Shark who helps clean up the ocean, but I have always been slightly curious to try this weird dish they make of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

I always wonder about the absolute privation that must have been behind the research and development of that bury/hang procedure. imagine the trial and error

dad caught one of these fucking sharks again in his open-top rowboat in some of the most insanely dangerous waters in the world so we're fucking going to figure out how to fucking eat it

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

if the other option is literally starving to death i imagine people will be pretty willing to try to figure it out

Death to America

Iceland is not a real country

[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

apex predator babeee

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