Greenland Shark

Species

Macken Murphy

Nature, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Can a Greenland shark live for 500 years? Do Greenland sharks hunt for moose? Why did a Danish physicist need shark eyes?

Macken answers all and more on this episode of Species.

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0:00.0	What was the world like 272 years ago?
0:04.9	The internet, podcasts, radio, phones, and photographs, planes and penicill and automobiles, none of that existed yet.
0:13.0	Horses were still one of the quickest ways to get around.
0:17.5	The Industrial Revolution hadn't even started yet.
0:21.8	The United States of America, my country, and perhaps yours, didn't exist either.
0:28.1	Greenland sharks did.
0:29.9	Not the species, no, I mean to say that scientists have captured individual Greenland sharks alive today who were still alive 272 years ago.
0:41.2	The crazy part?
0:43.9	272 years old is their low estimate.
0:47.5	Their higher estimate?
0:49.3	512 years old.
0:53.2	Now, what was the world like half a millennia ago?
0:58.4	512 years ago, the human population was less than half a billion.
1:02.8	Leonardo da Vinci was just finishing up the Mona Lisa.
1:06.7	512 years ago, Martin Luther had yet to publish his 95 theses.
1:12.4	That means Protestantism didn't exist yet.
1:17.2	Somewhere out there, deep in the ocean, there are massive 20-foot sea monsters
1:22.5	who have been hunting in those waters since before America and perhaps before Protestantism.
1:30.3	The Greenland shark.
1:32.3	Somniosis microcephalus.
1:35.3	The oldest vertebrate on Earth.
1:40.3	I'm Mackin. This is species.
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