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1 posted on 12/13/2017 10:56:09 AM PST by nickcarraway
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Must have a good chiropractor.


2 posted on 12/13/2017 10:57:55 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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Their flesh is considered a delicacy in Iceland, but is also toxic, containing a chemical that when eaten gives a sensation similar to extreme drunkenness.


Ha! When they said toxic, I thought they meant it in a bad way.


3 posted on 12/13/2017 10:59:05 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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the shark's true age could be between 272 and 512 years.

Only her hair dresser knows for sure...

4 posted on 12/13/2017 11:00:25 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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Hakarl! mmm.. going to need a lot of akvavit..


5 posted on 12/13/2017 11:01:55 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~u/base)
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Democrat icon member of Congress?


8 posted on 12/13/2017 11:03:22 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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Incredibly, Greenland sharks don’t reach sexual maturity until the age of 156, but it can happen as young as 134 according to findings.

...

Also known as the Helen Thomas shark.


10 posted on 12/13/2017 11:04:57 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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Their flesh is considered a delicacy in Iceland, but is also toxic, containing a chemical that when eaten gives a sensation similar to extreme drunkenness.

Sounds like fun!.....................

11 posted on 12/13/2017 11:05:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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"If this is true, the shark will have lived through Galileo's discovery that the Earth orbits the Sun, and the founding of the United States."

Actually, Galileo did not "discover" that the Earth orbits the Sun-- other scientists before his time (including Copernicus) had hypothesized the same thing. Galileo's problem (as well as that of the earlier thinkers) was that, even though he was right, the theory he offered did not convince the scientists of his time (including those in the Church). His proposal assumed the planets orbited the sun in a circle, which they don't, and that the ocean tides were proof of the rotation of the earth, which it isn't. It wasn't until latter scientists discoveries of the elliptical orbits of planets and star parallax that the model would work.

14 posted on 12/13/2017 11:16:57 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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an animal with a backbone


That leaves out Republicans in Congress /s


15 posted on 12/13/2017 11:17:18 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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I saw them preparing and eating that shite on a travel show once. It’s nasty and it stinks but they love it. If it’s what I’m thinking of.


16 posted on 12/13/2017 11:19:54 AM PST by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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Sound like a whopper of a fish tale to me.


18 posted on 12/13/2017 11:37:52 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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19 posted on 12/13/2017 11:43:52 AM PST by gaijin
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Democrat icon member of Congress?


25 posted on 12/13/2017 12:10:07 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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When he was born, Christopher Columbus was still alive. He might have seen Juan Ponce de León, Jacques Cartier and Henry Hudson sail past.


26 posted on 12/13/2017 12:39:26 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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19th-century weapon found in whale
28 posted on 12/13/2017 1:14:30 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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The long period of immaturity suggests that in spite of humans’ opinions about other animals brains, north Atlantic sharks spend of lot of time learning before sexual maturity.

The parallel is the greater degree of enforced delay of “virtual” sexual maturity human societies have placed on “young adults”, over time, as “more advanced” learning seemed necessary for the more complex human societies.

Science is discovering numerous animal species have been doing the same thing, naturally, and not just “virtually” but actually, and due to various changing conditions, in their own case. The successive generation(s) have delayed sexual maturity, had fewer offspring but had more successful offspring by apparently learning how to cope better with changes the species encountered. They get a longer period of learning before reproduction and seem to have better survival strategies when they do start reproduction.

I am not sure what THAT says in the case of the north Atlantic sharks, other than the later sexual maturity does suggest “more learning” time was naturally deemed important. How that is triggered, versus how humans have intentionally triggered it is something I do not have an answer for.


32 posted on 12/13/2017 2:19:31 PM PST by Wuli
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Nicholas Copernicus, a Polish scientist living about a century before Galileo, had already come up with the unorthodox idea that the Sun was at the center of the solar system. Galileo knew about and had accepted Copernicus's heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory.

It was Galileo's observations of Venus that proved the theory. Using his telescope, Galileo found that Venus went through phases, just like our Moon. But, the nature of these phases could only be explained by Venus going around the Sun, not the Earth. Galileo concluded that Venus must travel around the Sun, passing at times behind and beyond it, rather than revolving directly around the Earth.

Galileo's observations of the phases of Venus virtually proved that the Earth was not the center of the universe. It was this assertion which most angered the Church leaders of the time.
[solar-center.stanford.edu]

33 posted on 12/13/2017 2:34:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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This shark was the oldest living animal and then the Danes killed it.


44 posted on 12/14/2017 6:35:45 AM PST by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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Creation is amazing!


51 posted on 12/15/2017 7:50:14 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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After 67 years as a UPI White House correspondent and then columnist, Helen Thomas at last wore out her welcome.

She raised it as a pup.

54 posted on 03/10/2020 7:02:36 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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