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18ft Greenland shark found at least 272 years old possibly even as old as 572 years............that thing has lived so long I legitimately can't even remember what was going on back then, the 1500's........I.........I....... got nothin....
And no I'm not cheating by googling it,
http://www.ibtimes.com/512-year-old-shark-believed-be-oldest-living-vertebrate-found-north-atlantic-2628368?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true
DrKriegersClone
Those are the toxic piss sharks, right? (Extremely high urea concentrations in the tissue)?
HowardMoonsHotpants
'Found'. I.e. you 'found' the poor bastard on the end of your massive metal hook.
brickforpresident
I like how they're not certain about the century but theyre Damn sure it ends in 72 years old
Datsinginguy
“There can be only one” shark probably.
gangstasqwiz
armor was still pretty lame and not cool like dark souls
BrokenAnimal
"Get off my seaweed patch!"
DasPumpenStrasse
Either way it ends up on 72... Might be also 1972 yo
noncommital
Sharks age was confirmed when it start disapproving of everything.....
ButLogicallyTho
1500 was around the time the scientific method was introduced
Drewscifer
Remember that in Iceland this, buried in sand, and left to rot for 6-12 weeks is a national dish
OsoLoco1313
DNA harvested for longevity ppills for sure!
Ratman72
Lives in very cold water and has an extremely slow metabolism.
BoxZ
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd they killed it
WhiteGuy021
ROV Pilot here. We saw a Greenland shark run into the blowout preventer on the Thunderhorse oil rig.
AdamMinusTheEve
Is anyone else confused as how they were able to figure out the 2 year part at the end but still cant figure out a 300 year gap?
jm0502
Pharrell Williams was still young lad. https://imgur.com/5KJVdjH
Rifneno
Literally everything I've heard about it was "No, they didn't really find a 512 yr old shark." This is the ONLY place running with the 500
Rifneno
year old bullshit story. Way to go, imgur.
melancholyterminator
Ah don't be such a cynic, it's a ballpark and educated guess,
assbad
I always upvote fish
MininMark
So old Pepperidge Farm doesn’t remember.
VoidofStatic
Do old that Pepperidge farm wasn't even a glint in the milkman's eye.
Whwat
did they kill it?
sakela
I hope not :(
GadenKerensky
Possibly not; seems those bolt cutters are there to break the hook.
theitinerantnaturalist
@TheMajesticHarpyEagle
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
True fact?
theitinerantnaturalist
Not quite. Greenland sharks do live for centuries but the study never actually stated exactly how long
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
Ah.
PotassiumRegulatoryCommittee
Some animals like sharks and gators are so tough they don't die unless their environment changes
Shiftyeyesshady
Sometimes I think its a shame that the ocean cooled and all the Megalodon died. But then if they werent dead, no one would ever swim again.
ArthurPhillipDent
Copernicus was thinking that maybe the earth went round the sun
melancholyterminator
Silly fool, what did he know
IncorrektGramerNazi
now we all know the Eart is flat
SecondSince
The Vatican was thinking maybe they should burn this Copernicus dude.
Mrgolde
How do they figure those dates. “Eehhhh might be 272 maybe 572 five or take a 100 years”
magneticgumby
With the help of a mathematical model analyzing the lens and the cornea that linked size with age, researchers found a way to predict age.
magneticgumby
It's in the article. Reading them often helps.
MehEdits
That's obviously a vicious rock
roflcopterLOL
Not even vicious. Blind, slow, too lazy to attack living things
melancholyterminator
Rock beats paper scissors and fishing boat
PackedCatMeowingPowerDensity
It looks like a Pokemon! Primal Sharpedo!
CottonTheClown
How the heck do they know how old a shark is? Cut it open and count the rings?
Arrrrgggggghhhh
funnily enough for some species yes. Not for this type of shark though https://www.livescience.com/61210-shark-not-512-years-old.html
CottonTheClown
For some shark species, scientists use bony structures such as calcified vertebraeto track their age, reading rings that form in the harden.
CottonTheClown
Well kiss my ass
ArthurPhillipDent
Henry VIII was around. The mona lisa was painted. And Martin Luther invented Protestants
shetookeverything
Is that when they matched for Lincoln? /s
AimlessSavant
Ottomans were being Ottomans
CanadianMadCow
When men were men, and women were men. Boats were wood and bullets were round. And dogs were men!
DireSnails
Keanu Reeves was young.
Dontdeprivemeofmydelusion
Underappreciated comment
Snooj
And there were some old-ass trees saying "Look at that young motherfucker."
Wizardasfuck
1.5k years of religious tradition vs one shitpost
36roentgen
The Roman Empire still existed in the form of the Byzantine Empire.
Eunoterp
He was just a widdo baby a sharkey warkey then....
Tigersterne
Europeans were having issues settling their differences peacefully.
phobos535
Thats about the whole human history in one sentence...
EmanNiemThcin
Imagine a unified europe from the middle ages and onwards. You'd all be speaking Esperanto now!
EmyLightsaber
OP's mom was born
redbullvodka
Nostradamus was having some real conversation for your ass.
1metalnation
Don't forget Vikings breaking england, again
melancholyterminator
Nice!!
ThatQuietlySmirking
Ezio Auditore was killing people in Rome.
respondswithgifs
Man it’s so amazing thinking of it’s age in that light haha.
majoraz
The Aztec empire was still around.
skillerious
Only way to confirm is to cut it in half and count the rings.
MimicKing007
The article makes it sounds like the researcher is making it up and trying not to admit it.
TheScottishRonSwanson
It's age was tested using carbon dating, they gave them selves a late margin of error just to be safe.
WaffleCopters
Ahhh but carbon dating isn't the most accurate. Let alone be accurate within a couple hundred years.
MousseCakePie
Not quite. AMS C14 dates can have calibrated date intervals of less than 100 years
MousseCakePie
Damn thing's paywalled. I'm mostly concerned that they haven't accounted for the marine reservoir effect
MousseCakePie
Got access; they did in fact account for it and for the 1950's nuclear tests
ArthurPhillipDent
Seems like its an uncertain age because the method of working out their age by the eyes is quite recent and has an unknown margin of error
Raspootin
They cut in half and counted the rings.
HinmnIsNotMyName
I don’t get a read like that. They mention multiple dating methods, at least one being fairly precise, and have multiple samples. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
TygrF
multiple dating methods and I still can't get laid...
HinmnIsNotMyName
Would you like me tell you a secret? Pssst... you don’t need a method when you meet a good gal. If you just want to get laid just wait.
TygrF
Psst, backatcha. Took me 46 yrs & 1 failed marriage, but I actually learned this. My comment was a joke - I got a great girl who actually
TygrF
desires me, now. (as in, went 4 rounds + 1 glorious bj over this weekend) +1 coz your advice is spot on, yo!