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Sharks (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Crocodiles: Sup

[–] quinceyBones 30 points 1 month ago

Jellyfish: What’s death?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sharks are older!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

I have been outscienced.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They may not survive us unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They pretty sure may and pretty sure will.

At other extinction events deep water dwelling creatures had good chances to survive. Also sharks don't have complex food needs, are widespread over the globe and procreate without much ado (no familie structures and such, their approach is quantity based)... They will do fine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope you are right, 100 million sharks a year is a lot of sharks to lose

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aren't most of those only a few species of shark?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Trawling doesn't discriminate and the sharks are usually injured so badly that they die a slow painful death after being thrown overboard again, that's if they're not dead already.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They are likely not totally immune to the effects of climate change, however

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocean-acidification-could-eat-away-at-sharks-teeth-and-scales/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Imagine being such a perfect specimen that after a mass extinction and you are essentially in an evolutionary power vacuum you go "Nah homie... I'm good" and stay the same.

As a species... I think we screwed up somewhere way back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

We'll get em this time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sharks are amazing. They're also older than trees!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And older than the north star

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Sharks after a sharknado:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Im starting to think trans people chose sharks as their mascot to signify their resilience :3

Good boy! Good girl! Good they! Good drag!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, sharks never had to contend with humans before. We're the worst