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egb_hibs said:
Boffins have discovered a 400 year old shark .... then leaving Shrink at the cav they went in the sea..and found a 400 year old shark.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...eenland-shark-is-the-oldest-vertebrate-animal

I had no idea that recognisable animals - as opposed to the 500 year old clams mentioned and stuff like that - lived this long.

Sharks really are awesome $#@!s. Much like shrink, again. :yeah:
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Wow, I'm always impressed by trees that are hundreds or even thousands of years old but that's really impressive.

Megalodon is pretty mindblowing albeit an extinct animal is never quite as impressive.

On the subject of mental natural history stuff, I recently learned that dolphins are believed to have evolved from wolves. :glassraise:
 
hibadelic said:
Wow, I'm always impressed by trees that are hundreds or even thousands of years old but that's really impressive.

Megalodon is pretty mindblowing albeit an extinct animal is never quite as impressive.

On the subject of mental natural history stuff, I recently learned that dolphins are believed to have evolved from wolves. :glassraise:
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What?! I never knew anything evolved back into the sea, as it were. I suppose given a moments thought sea mammals must have, but I'd never given it that moments thought before. Nor did I know Dolphins were mammals, though I knew whales were.
 
But but global warming/climate change is killing everything off.
 
egb_hibs said:
What?! I never knew anything evolved back into the sea, as it were. I suppose given a moments thought sea mammals must have, but I'd never given it that moments thought before. Nor did I know Dolphins were mammals, though I knew whales were.
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I came to consider whales too and figured that they must have come from larger mammals, something more elephant or hippo like but that doesn't seem to be the case. They also evolved from wolf-like creatures apparently.
 
egb_hibs said:
What?! I never knew anything evolved back into the sea, as it were. I suppose given a moments thought sea mammals must have, but I'd never given it that moments thought before. Nor did I know Dolphins were mammals, though I knew whales were.
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good find on the old shark M, great story

dolphins belong to the same 'family' as other toothed whales like the orca and sperm whale (as opposed to the baleen whales that filter feed e.g. blue and minke whales). All whales have vestigial remains of four limbs and are thought to have evolved from land mammals. Wolves might be a bit of a stretch but wolf like mammals that were kickin about 50 million years ago is pretty close. There whole behavioural and reproductive biology is almost identical to current land mammals just wetter.
 
"The dolphins were monkeys that didn’t like the land. Walked back to the water, went back from the sand." Said Ian Brown.


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gun ainm said:
good find on the old shark M, great story

dolphins belong to the same 'family' as other toothed whales like the orca and sperm whale (as opposed to the baleen whales that filter feed e.g. blue and minke whales). All whales have vestigial remains of four limbs and are thought to have evolved from land mammals. Wolves might be a bit of a stretch but wolf like mammals that were kickin about 50 million years ago is pretty close. There whole behavioural and reproductive biology is almost identical to current land mammals just wetter.
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Good stuff. That vestigial remains stuff is mind blowing, especially in humans. Apologies to OP for going more off topic with every post but the one that gets me is that we (you, me, your family, everyone) have that thing where an animal's eye lids close in two different directions i.e. it closes horizontally and vertically, or close to it. Sadly, we've lost the muscles that move the horizontal lids (or something close to that). Imagine finding a way to train those muscles :rollfloor
 
egb_hibs said:
What?! I never knew anything evolved back into the sea, as it were. I suppose given a moments thought sea mammals must have, but I'd never given it that moments thought before. Nor did I know Dolphins were mammals, though I knew whales were.
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1st not knowing Queens Park owned Hampden now he says he didn't know dolphins are mammals!

Has egb_hibs been hacked
 
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