Happy Shark Week 🦈 (mander.xyz)

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[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

Sharks are older than the North Star.

Look it up.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

I was sure this was going to be some sort of trick. It was not.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

Quoting Wikipedia:

Shark-like chondrichthyans such as Cladoselache and Doliodus first appeared in the Devonian Period (419–359 million years), though some fossilized chondrichthyan-like scales are as old as the Late Ordovician (458–444 million years ago).[1] The earliest confirmed modern sharks (selachimorphs) are known from the Early Jurassic around 200 million years ago >

So, yes they appeared in the Devonian

[-] Muscar@discuss.online 7 points 2 months ago

The person that made this image is failing hard at basic English.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

that

*who

:-p

[-] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 3 points 2 months ago

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/that

That refers primarily to people or things; which refers primarily to things, and who refers primarily to people. Some authorities insist who/whom be used when making reference to people, but others, such as the Merriam-Webster dictionary, write that such prescriptions are "without foundation" and use of that in such positions is common and "entirely standard".[2] Hence, one sees both "he is the man who invented the telephone" and "he is the man that invented the telephone."