Sharks with contaminated blood showed shifts in metabolic markers tied to stress and energy use. The researchers aren’t sure what the long-term effects of exposure might be, but similar studies in other species have shown that exposure to stimulants like caffeine can alter behavior

Can we get one of those spider-takes-drug-X studies, but sharks?

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 162d

The researchers aren’t sure what the long-term effects of exposure might be

I have a vague idea...

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 163d

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt27036391/

badbytes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 162d (1 reply)

Are they shooting the new Jackass movie there?

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d

Sounds like they already did.

klu9@piefed.social · 4 pts · 162d

Cocaine shark https://piefed.social/post/1062495

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 162d

Sharks in the Bahamas Are Full of Cocaine, Caffeine, and Painkillers

Sounds like the beginning of a pretty good night out.

bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d

Where's @sharkfucker420 when you need him?

Chozo@fedia.io · 3 pts · 163d

Fuck yeah

JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 163d (2 replies)

And microplastics and human excrement and crude oil and everything else humans dump into oceans.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 162d (1 reply)

Obviously, the natural headline here is that there are sharks on drugs in the Bahamas. While that was technically happening, that’s a much more sensationalistic take. The reality is that we humans are blissfully unaware of the fact that the drugs we put in us eventually leave us and end up saturating whatever they flow into, like microplastics.

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 2 pts · 162d

"Saturating" also has a specific meaning that isn't "contains traces of."

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d (2 replies)

And everyone alive is "full of" radioactive waste from nuclear bomb tests in the 60's. And by "full of" I mean, technically detectable by extremely precise scientific equipment but in such small quantities that it has zero effect on the organism and is measured by the number of molecules present rather than even something small like micrograms.

wesdym@mastodon.social · 0 pts · 162d

@I_Has_A_Hat This, by the way, is why someone has been stealing pre-'40s shipwrecks off the ocean floors. That's the only easily accessible iron that's not contaminated with 'bomb waste', making it valuable for certain kinds of scientific instruments. But no one cares about all the iron we use everyday in everything, because the level is so low.

wesdym@mastodon.social · 0 pts · 162d

@I_Has_A_Hat You're mostly correct, but it's a bit more than that. 'Radiation' is a lot of things (heat, light, etc.), but what we mean in cases like this is IONIZING radiation. And our world is filled with that. Bananas are radioactive, for example. Your own body is, too, only because it also contains some potassium-40. Anything granite you encounter is slightly radioactive, and so on. This does not require us to ingest waste from bombs, but that's also a factor.