Happy Shark Week 🦈

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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Sharks are older than the North Star.

Look it up.

boonhet@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y

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

Mothra@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

that

*who

:-p

_Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y

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."

Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run · 2 pts · 2y

Yay Sharks!!