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Happy Shark Week 🦈 (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sharks are older than the North Star.

Look it up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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

that

*who

:-p

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 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."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yay Sharks!!