Edit: Got my ass blown out for not reading thoroughly...sorry...Didn't know that By-catch meant was most likely dead to begin with.
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Scientists discovered a shark that's been living for more than 400 years, speculate longer lifespans.
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Edit: Got my ass blown out for not reading thoroughly...sorry...Didn't know that By-catch meant was most likely dead to begin with.
Can't believe someone hasn't managed to kill it for its fins! It's delicious, medicinal fins! Yum!
Sometimes, I get really sad about all the amazing and mysterious stuff that we'll never learn about, or be able to appreciate, because we've pillaged and slaughtered so much with nary a second thought. But if I let myself dwell on things like that for too long, I'd really just become hopeless. Hang in there, aged shark friend.
Welp.
Sometimes, I get really sad about all the amazing and mysterious stuff that we'll never learn about, or be able to appreciate, because we've pillaged and slaughtered so much with nary a second thought. But if I let myself dwell on things like that for too long, I'd really just become hopeless. Hang in there, aged shark friend.
Welp.
...well what the fuck. Goddamn can humanity touch ANYTHING without ruining it.
You make it sound like they took a living shark and killed it by gouging its eyes out o0 This, as far as I can see, is the only info we got on the matter:
For anything more you'd have to check out the paper yourself, linked in the article.
Bycatch is fish and animals you unintentionally catch while fishing for something else, most likely killing them in the process.
I mean....couldn't they have tagged it with a tracer or something and always check up on it. When it died of natural causes then you can check how old it was
This article in OP is 3yrs old but they only ever found out age range of the shark. Not its exact age. And the sharks used are from bycatch -- meaning it was likely dead.
https://www.livescience.com/61210-shark-not-512-years-old.html
https://www.livescience.com/61210-shark-not-512-years-old.html
They were able to determine it's age unfortunately by gouging out its eyes, thus killing it. And a method involving the atomic bomb testing of the 1950s.
It's radiocarbon dating of the lens. I haven't found any source stating that the process kills the shark.
They likely didn't. More than likely these were sharks that had been caught and were already dead when the scientist came into their possession. Most scientist are pretty good about the ethical issues around killing animals.
In other news, archeologists recover an underground depository of the Library of Alexandria. Speculated to contain Aristotle's treatise on Comedy, Homer's Margites with the actual author's name, the second esotorica of the I-Ching, and the lost books of the bible. "We had to bulldoze and burn our way in, but standing in the wreakage was awe-inspiring. The amount of knowledge here was probably vast."
This article is old but it seems the shark was already dead when they did that to determine the age range
Did they really kill a 400 year old animal for "science"? I sure fucking hope it was already dead.
After reading the article only the youngest sharks had their eyes carbon dated and the age of the older ones was extrapolated from that.
So assuming they were killed in the process of aging - which isn't certain either as it says they were bycatch - only the youngest 3 were affected by this.
The shark died from people catching other fish to eat and was passed onto scientists to study.
My bad, but they did kill Ming the 507 year old clam!
We can still get angry at this though:
Edit: Beaten! Grasshopper too quick!
Edit: Beaten! Grasshopper too quick!
I want top scientists making a serum from it's DNA by the end of the week that I can inject to give me it's powers.
Let's get moving people!
Let's get moving people!
I'm no scientist but I feel like that guy was dead already. Could be wrong though, don't hold me on that.
To think.... she was right there witnessing the conquest of the Americas and we didn't even notice
This article is 2 years old, Greenland sharks have been speculated to live upwards of 400 years far longer than that, there's some doubt about the methods used, and they're not a recently discovered species.
/nofun
/nofun
Not reading is also apparently typical behaviour
They didn't find and kill the shark
It's bycatch
Man, how do you even read that article and get " They killed it by gouging out its eyes!!" It's like you set out to misinform.
What sense does it make even in imagination? What were they impatient or something? "Damn, it's been hours since we injected it with a sedative, may be a few more hours until it's gone....FUCK IT, I'M GOING FOR THE EYES!"
What sense does it make even in imagination? What were they impatient or something? "Damn, it's been hours since we injected it with a sedative, may be a few more hours until it's gone....FUCK IT, I'M GOING FOR THE EYES!"
I like how OP's misrepresentation of what the scientists did led to this crazy scientists tangent.
Ahh so this is how catdog was made.