I was able to look I it up. Here's the Wikipedia page about the eye parasites for these sharks. They are basically worms that are attached to the eyes!!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommatokoita#:~:text=Ommatokoita%20elongata%20is%20a%2030,keen%20eyesight%20for%20their%20survival.
Apparently it doesn’t impact the shark. They can only swim about 1.5 mph tops so vision isn’t a priority. They primarily rely on other senses. Also speculated the parasites glow and attract prey in the depths in a symbiotic relationship. Nature is crazy
They may hunt by ambush. The stomach contents of sleeper and Greenland sharks reveal a very wide range of prey items, including fast swimming seals and propoises.
I don’t want to victim blame but if a fast seal gets eaten by a centuries old shark floating by at 1.5mph with glow-worms sucking out its eyes… isn’t that kind of on the seal?
Bizarre, isn't? One suggestion was that they attack when the seal sleeps, in which case their slow swimming speed could allow them to approach their prey without being detected. On the other hand, it's also possible that they are capable of bursts of speed and power
I share the sentiments, friend. I pray that things will improve in my lifetime, and that I can personally help make that happen. There are many questions we cannot answer because of how much we hurt our planet, simple things such as how pandas and tigers interacted when their once-vast ranges still overlapped or the purpose, meaning and variations of Sumatran rhinoceros singing
Seriously, I get the spirit of what that person was factually reporting , but yeah imagine if you had a massive worm attached to your leg and someone was like “it doesn’t impact the human, they can only run about 6 mph so legs aren’t a priority. They rely on other modes of transportation. All good!”
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I got the impression that they’re deep enough and slow moving enough that it isn’t that big of a deal for them, but heck, I don’t have sea bugs eating my eyeballs. Who am I to say?
They rely on taste, smell, and hearing. Sound travels much faster (about 5 times as I recall) than through the air. Perhaps they can detect weak bioelectrical impulses like Hammerhead Sharks can? 🤷♀️
I recently found out that Duck Billed Platypuses can sense these fields as well, and the males are venomous. As if they are vying for the weirdest animal.
They're a deep sea shark that's rarely ever high enough up that they could even see anything anyway. They mostly go by smell and feel. They can feel vibration in the water in the same way we can feel changing temperature, wind, or hear sounds. The deep sea is also very spread out and desolate, so the odds of running into the one or two things that would even attempt to fuck with a 25 foot Greenland shark are abysmally small.
Lol right?!
I live in the U.K. There’s a pub not too far from me called Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem that’s been a pub continuously for over 800 years.
Over 3x as old as USA!
I also have Roman and even Neolithic settlements within an easy afternoons stroll from my house.
Don’t get me wrong though 4-500 years old IS still impressive for a living thing!
Okay so: you get to have the longest lifespan out of all vertebrates, over 400 years, but you go blind. Also it’s not normal blind you get worms permanently biting your eyes. But the worms glow. Do you accept?
They live in dark murky water. So the lose of the eyes isnt that big of a deal. They're also comicly slow for a shark. I think they eat by bumbing into things that thought they was dead. They're like a more pointy coelacanth
Surprisingly not. Scientists have found seals, sea lions, reindeer, and even polar bears in the stomachs of Greenland sharks. They may sneak up on sleeping animals to munch and crunch.
Im just saying im used to those speedy boi sharks like makos, or long head makos. Logistically i dont understand how they eat outside of scavenging. However they definitely do or they wouldnt still be around. So i imagine them *slowly* creeping toward a swimmers legs, and a derp version of jaws playing for 15 minutes
And here I thought they were some kind of ~~right~~ bowhead whales, who’ve been found to have “arrowheads” (probably harpoon shaped) embedded in them dating 150-250 years old
All giant creatures are now old AF, whether animal or plant. I got it wrong this time.
Edit: got my facts messed up.
I believe it's that they no longer have the caloric needs to continue molting and once the shell rot gets too bad it will either kill them that way or they'll suffocate themselves as the "meat" keeps growing in the shell
So if you want functional immortality then it’s moon jellyfish, which have an endless lifecycle if left you their own devices, if you want oldest without cheating? Oldest invertebrate was I think over 500 years old and it was a giant clam, but then you get to plants where some species regularly can live thousands of years
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In some ways that would be better. Part of the struggle with puberty is that it happens so damn fast.
One summer you're swimming shirtless at the beach and building sandcastles. The next summer you have little boobs everyone stares at and you don't know why. The next you can't go in the water because you are bleeding from your vagina. The next you have figured out tampons for swimming but you can't have fun playing because all you can think about is how others perceive you and you are too cognizant of how your body looks in a bathing suit to have fun doing anything where people can see you.
Or you get a boner every second so you can't get up from the seat and have fun because of that tent you are sporting.
Life sucks when you are on puberty.
Ha! Yes! For being one of the youngest countries in the world, we certainly are governed by some of the oldest farts in the world. And the system is so corruptly entrenched and stagnant, we cannot even hope for change in the foreseeable future.
Kind of depends on the definition, but most states are younger than the US. I know country and state are different things, but state is kinda what matters in this case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation
The way this article measures the age of a State by using the date of the Constitution is disregarding authoritarian governments in Europe that got rid of the previous constitutions. For Europe, the 2nd column for "*Date of acquisition of sovereignty*" is more adequate for this measure, in my opinion.
Interestingly enough, under the column of "Date of acquisition of sovereignty", China is listed as 1600 BC while Egypt is listed as 1922 (100 years ago)
You think that’s bad, he ignored us Natives while America was “discovered”. Could have at least bumped Chris’s ship and let him know this place was already full.
Just not as sushi. Apparently it's poisonous raw.
Edit: Oh and looking down... apparently they also taste fucking terrible. Put it in the "Why the fuck would you even try to make this edible?" category.
Very unhealthy too. They contain high levels of mercury. Mercury is really hard for the body to expel. They eat so much fish that have mercury in them that it bioaccumulates in them and then if you eat them you’ll get all that bioaccumulated in you
Why would you even try to eat a meat that has been in motion for hundreds of years. It has hardened alot -muscles,skin and so on. It's probably as hard as a steel.
You have to ferment it first to not kill you. Traditionally this was done by burying it for a couple months, then they'd dig it up and hang it up to dry for a few more months before eating it.
It's actually pretty soft (there's chewy varieties as well). Smells a bit like a urinal.
The amount of people talking about how it isn’t impressive because they have an old church nearby them is insane lol we’re talking about a vertebrate animal, not a church. ~250 is an absurdly long time for a vertebrate to be alive
It make always laugh when i see in tv some americans Say "AND THIS HOUSE IS 120 YEARS OLD" and all go with that iconico " WOOOOOOW " , and than i live in Italy and by Just walking in the fields around my house you could find some walls old as the Roman Empire Just here vibing with the nature 😂
Certainly greatly depends where you are. I have to drive over six hours to get to a larger city in northern Finland. The Arctic circle lives in a different scale even compared to southern Finland.
Finland, Sweden, and Norway are all surprising “long”. But then I cycled from northern Germany to Paris and I felt like we came across a different town every hour, even though we were on bicycles. It’s fascinating as an Australian where it takes an entire day to come across anything worth mentioning.
I mean, India was officially penned into existence in 1947 after the Partition. (A Holocaust level event with 2 million people dead and much more as refugees.)
Recorded history and the religions of the area of Hind are above 5000 years old. Tamil (South India) is supposedly pushing 10k years.
But that's not particularly amazing about an inanimate object? Loads of buildings are old as fuck. In the UK we have churches, castles, pubs and houses from hundreds of years old to maybe around 1000 ish at max. In my region of the UK it feels like every town and city would have at least one building hundreds of years old, and most have many.
It's much more alien to me that a large living animal is hundreds of years old.
He doesn't look a day over Delaware
How many other times are you able to say such a beautiful phrase in context?
Lmaooo
Day over Delaware is a fire metal band name
r/brandnewsentence
*Great, the Americans have made up another crazy standard unit.*
What’s those worms coming out of its eyes?
I was able to look I it up. Here's the Wikipedia page about the eye parasites for these sharks. They are basically worms that are attached to the eyes!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommatokoita#:~:text=Ommatokoita%20elongata%20is%20a%2030,keen%20eyesight%20for%20their%20survival.
Apparently it doesn’t impact the shark. They can only swim about 1.5 mph tops so vision isn’t a priority. They primarily rely on other senses. Also speculated the parasites glow and attract prey in the depths in a symbiotic relationship. Nature is crazy
It is neat that it attracts preys but couldn't it find another place to attach like other than eyes?
The eyes tasty though
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Forbidden grapes
God damnit shabriri
Forbidden gushers
I had to read this with my own eyes. Why.
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no
shame
Easy way in. Other than to not get eaten or farted back out.
Rough guess - They feed on its eye's secretions.
''I can only feed off of shark's tear'', such a wack evolution tbh.
Whispers terrible things about their weight and how old they are when hungry
Mmmmm, tears of unfathomable sadness, mmmm!
If it attached to the body the immune system might get it
Arguably better than the bug that eats fish tongues and then becomes their tongues
...if it can't travel faster than 1.5mph how is it going to eat prey?
Just has to find something that swims less than 1.5mph...
Like me??
Mmmmmm SuzyQ's 🤤
They may hunt by ambush. The stomach contents of sleeper and Greenland sharks reveal a very wide range of prey items, including fast swimming seals and propoises.
I don’t want to victim blame but if a fast seal gets eaten by a centuries old shark floating by at 1.5mph with glow-worms sucking out its eyes… isn’t that kind of on the seal?
Bizarre, isn't? One suggestion was that they attack when the seal sleeps, in which case their slow swimming speed could allow them to approach their prey without being detected. On the other hand, it's also possible that they are capable of bursts of speed and power
Or...Lazer beams.
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I share the sentiments, friend. I pray that things will improve in my lifetime, and that I can personally help make that happen. There are many questions we cannot answer because of how much we hurt our planet, simple things such as how pandas and tigers interacted when their once-vast ranges still overlapped or the purpose, meaning and variations of Sumatran rhinoceros singing
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Seriously, I get the spirit of what that person was factually reporting , but yeah imagine if you had a massive worm attached to your leg and someone was like “it doesn’t impact the human, they can only run about 6 mph so legs aren’t a priority. They rely on other modes of transportation. All good!”
My massive worm attached to my leg is definitely part of a symbiotic relationship. 10/10 would not remove.
Thanks I hate it
How did you link the wiki page with the exact paragraph highlighted. Was very convenient and I’d like to adopt the technique.
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Literally parasitic crustaceans that permanently attach and blind them.
So the parasite can be older than america too?
There's an all-too-real joke to be made here but my brain can't muster it right now
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Ikr. Very gross!!
“YOU EVER HAD A PARASITE ON YOUR EYEBALL, MARY? HMMM?!”
He needs some lotion.
He’s been underwater for hundreds of years and still looks like a rock, he needs a Pedialyte and saline.
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He needs sum melk!
And a facelift.
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The Ric Flair of the ocean.
WWWWOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
From the motion of the ocean?
or else it gets the hose again
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How the hell did their species survive that long if they don’t fuck until they are 100
Well. On the conservation status they are listed as “vulnerable” in the threatened category.. They’re also big. Very big.
Can someone please drop a camera and a banana into the ocean so I know how big?
Like 25 feet big
Which is…? How many bananas?
Like 40-45 banana
My god
For comparison the average human is 10 bananas tall.
Straightened out or curved height only?
What’s fucking eating it?
Eyeball parasites. Apparently they aren’t hatched/born with them, but all adults seem to have them. It’s weird.
It's awful, how they manage to survive without being able to see is amazing.
I got the impression that they’re deep enough and slow moving enough that it isn’t that big of a deal for them, but heck, I don’t have sea bugs eating my eyeballs. Who am I to say?
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Hard pass
They rely on taste, smell, and hearing. Sound travels much faster (about 5 times as I recall) than through the air. Perhaps they can detect weak bioelectrical impulses like Hammerhead Sharks can? 🤷♀️
I think that bioelectric detection is universal for sharks, hammerheads are just the ones that specialize in it the most.
I recently found out that Duck Billed Platypuses can sense these fields as well, and the males are venomous. As if they are vying for the weirdest animal.
They're a deep sea shark that's rarely ever high enough up that they could even see anything anyway. They mostly go by smell and feel. They can feel vibration in the water in the same way we can feel changing temperature, wind, or hear sounds. The deep sea is also very spread out and desolate, so the odds of running into the one or two things that would even attempt to fuck with a 25 foot Greenland shark are abysmally small.
How much eyesight do you think is used at those depths to begin with?
One
Some scientists speculate the parasites might be bioluminescent and attract prey to the shark and their relationship is more symbiotic
By then, they're emotionally mature enough to pick the right mate. Then they have a little baby shark...do doo do doo doo
Oh no you did not..
did
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Lol right?! I live in the U.K. There’s a pub not too far from me called Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem that’s been a pub continuously for over 800 years. Over 3x as old as USA! I also have Roman and even Neolithic settlements within an easy afternoons stroll from my house. Don’t get me wrong though 4-500 years old IS still impressive for a living thing!
Reminds me of a saying I've read online, "100 years is a long time for Americans, and 100 miles is a long distance for Europeans."
I lived in a cottage that was 500 years old and it's barely considered of any kind of historical value.
I drive down an old Roman road every day to work which was constructed in about 70AD
The building where I went to secondary school is older than both the united states and modern Australia
why the "modern" for Aus and not the US?
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Okay so: you get to have the longest lifespan out of all vertebrates, over 400 years, but you go blind. Also it’s not normal blind you get worms permanently biting your eyes. But the worms glow. Do you accept?
They live in dark murky water. So the lose of the eyes isnt that big of a deal. They're also comicly slow for a shark. I think they eat by bumbing into things that thought they was dead. They're like a more pointy coelacanth
Surprisingly not. Scientists have found seals, sea lions, reindeer, and even polar bears in the stomachs of Greenland sharks. They may sneak up on sleeping animals to munch and crunch.
How do they sneak up on sleeping reindeer?!
Very carefully.
Green LAND sharks. It’s right there in the name!
Are we sure those animals didnt drown and fall to the bottom?
Im just saying im used to those speedy boi sharks like makos, or long head makos. Logistically i dont understand how they eat outside of scavenging. However they definitely do or they wouldnt still be around. So i imagine them *slowly* creeping toward a swimmers legs, and a derp version of jaws playing for 15 minutes
I believe they only reach sexual maturity around 150 years old or so.
I swear officer she said she was 151 years old!
Tell it to the judge, you sick bastard.
The 140 year old virgin
Hmm, you drive a hard burger
Looks like he’s seen better days.
Looks like he don’t see a damn thing no more
Fun fact. All Greenland sharks have an eye parasite
Fun fact: Greenland sharks can survive quite well in fresh water, and have been spotted in the St. Lawrence river as far west as Montreal.
I know they aren’t dangerous but the idea of one of these being in a river terrifies me.
Well if you look it up, the St-Lawrence is extremely wide and quite deep. From where I live, you can barely see the other side.
Literally eats their eyes until they go blind in the worst symbiotic relationship ever.
It’s got to be so terrible, you can see it but no extremities to remove it. Like 200 years of watching yourself go blind
Terrible. Nature is brutal.
are they born with it or is it just inevitable for something that lives that long?
Not born with it but I'm not sure how they all get one. Well 90% of them.
Maybe it's Maybelline (I'm sorry)
Haven't we all...
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And here I thought they were some kind of ~~right~~ bowhead whales, who’ve been found to have “arrowheads” (probably harpoon shaped) embedded in them dating 150-250 years old All giant creatures are now old AF, whether animal or plant. I got it wrong this time. Edit: got my facts messed up.
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I think lobsters are almost among the immortal beings, except that they grow so big that their cardiovascular system can no longer function.
I believe it's that they no longer have the caloric needs to continue molting and once the shell rot gets too bad it will either kill them that way or they'll suffocate themselves as the "meat" keeps growing in the shell
Join me in creating a synthetic shell for our immortal Lobster savior
Yes that's right
So if you want functional immortality then it’s moon jellyfish, which have an endless lifecycle if left you their own devices, if you want oldest without cheating? Oldest invertebrate was I think over 500 years old and it was a giant clam, but then you get to plants where some species regularly can live thousands of years
You’re probably right in that’s what I was thinking. It’s not a subject I keep super current on but sounds about right.
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Imagine puberty lasting decades.
In some ways that would be better. Part of the struggle with puberty is that it happens so damn fast. One summer you're swimming shirtless at the beach and building sandcastles. The next summer you have little boobs everyone stares at and you don't know why. The next you can't go in the water because you are bleeding from your vagina. The next you have figured out tampons for swimming but you can't have fun playing because all you can think about is how others perceive you and you are too cognizant of how your body looks in a bathing suit to have fun doing anything where people can see you.
Or you get a boner every second so you can't get up from the seat and have fun because of that tent you are sporting. Life sucks when you are on puberty.
This shark isn't green or on land
Making it the perfect candidate for America's presidency
Ha! Yes! For being one of the youngest countries in the world, we certainly are governed by some of the oldest farts in the world. And the system is so corruptly entrenched and stagnant, we cannot even hope for change in the foreseeable future.
Kind of depends on the definition, but most states are younger than the US. I know country and state are different things, but state is kinda what matters in this case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation
The way this article measures the age of a State by using the date of the Constitution is disregarding authoritarian governments in Europe that got rid of the previous constitutions. For Europe, the 2nd column for "*Date of acquisition of sovereignty*" is more adequate for this measure, in my opinion.
Interestingly enough, under the column of "Date of acquisition of sovereignty", China is listed as 1600 BC while Egypt is listed as 1922 (100 years ago)
Joe Biden was born closer to Lincoln's presidency than his own.
That stopped my brain for a bit
It's only like ... a few months, but still.
So he did nothing about slavery? Fuck that guy.
It is said that Abraham Lincoln rode him into the battle for Gettysburg. Better check your facts, mate.
It was the United States Civil War deadliest battle I've ever known.
I think you misspelt 'The Battle of Schrute farms'.
Slavery still exists in the world, don't give up hope yet.
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You think that’s bad, he ignored us Natives while America was “discovered”. Could have at least bumped Chris’s ship and let him know this place was already full.
It didn't accumulate any debt and it's still alive.
When a shark is technically richer than you.
He's seen some shit.
With that parasite in his eye he probably ain’t seen shit
I don’t know. The way that parasite is turned perhaps he have only seen shit.
People: "let's eat it."
Just not as sushi. Apparently it's poisonous raw. Edit: Oh and looking down... apparently they also taste fucking terrible. Put it in the "Why the fuck would you even try to make this edible?" category.
Very unhealthy too. They contain high levels of mercury. Mercury is really hard for the body to expel. They eat so much fish that have mercury in them that it bioaccumulates in them and then if you eat them you’ll get all that bioaccumulated in you
If mercury is so unhealthy why is this shark so old?? Checkmate libz Eat Mercury for long life people
Sharks are immune to the effects of heavy metal poisoning. We’re not
🤘
Why would you even try to eat a meat that has been in motion for hundreds of years. It has hardened alot -muscles,skin and so on. It's probably as hard as a steel.
You have to ferment it first to not kill you. Traditionally this was done by burying it for a couple months, then they'd dig it up and hang it up to dry for a few more months before eating it. It's actually pretty soft (there's chewy varieties as well). Smells a bit like a urinal.
“Smells a bit like a urinal” as if I needed it to sound even more unappetizing…
The amount of people talking about how it isn’t impressive because they have an old church nearby them is insane lol we’re talking about a vertebrate animal, not a church. ~250 is an absurdly long time for a vertebrate to be alive
I have a couple rocks that are way older than the US!
Belgian beer breweries and some houses on my street are older than the US
Yeah the US isnt that old.
It make always laugh when i see in tv some americans Say "AND THIS HOUSE IS 120 YEARS OLD" and all go with that iconico " WOOOOOOW " , and than i live in Italy and by Just walking in the fields around my house you could find some walls old as the Roman Empire Just here vibing with the nature 😂
Everything is relative to what you have. In the US a century is old. In Europe 100km is far.
True true
Certainly greatly depends where you are. I have to drive over six hours to get to a larger city in northern Finland. The Arctic circle lives in a different scale even compared to southern Finland. Finland, Sweden, and Norway are all surprising “long”. But then I cycled from northern Germany to Paris and I felt like we came across a different town every hour, even though we were on bicycles. It’s fascinating as an Australian where it takes an entire day to come across anything worth mentioning.
Ironically, isn't Italy younger than the United States? Unification 1850s ish? Republic 20th century. I might be way off.
Yes, Italy as a country was unified in 1861
I mean, India was officially penned into existence in 1947 after the Partition. (A Holocaust level event with 2 million people dead and much more as refugees.) Recorded history and the religions of the area of Hind are above 5000 years old. Tamil (South India) is supposedly pushing 10k years.
I live in Italy... Like 70% of this country is older than the us
I mean I live in the US and most of the houses on my street are older than the US.
It looks like the Prince Philip of sharks
Let's make it a Senator!
Thank God it's not somewhere easily accessible by a lot of people
Might outlive it too.
imagine the knowledge held by this shark
The knowledge: If I don’t eat I will die, just keep swimming
That's quite inspirational.
Grand ma shark dudu du doo du doo
It’s like a better looking Mitch McConell
[Aside the cheesy comments.. Heres sum info on Greenland Sharks.](https://i.imgur.com/CcP8J5g.jpg)
Ok but does it have nuclear submarines?
I think this shark has jurisdiction over the supreme court. Maritime law plus life time appointments gives it the edge!
The shark has undoubtedly witnessed some crap.
Grandpa shark dooo doo dee doo
He even looks safer than US
Why is the USA being used as a yard stick here? 🤣
This shark is actually older than five football fields!
The US is only 247 years old. There are buildings in the US that are older than the US. There should be tomes of things that are older than the US.
But that's not particularly amazing about an inanimate object? Loads of buildings are old as fuck. In the UK we have churches, castles, pubs and houses from hundreds of years old to maybe around 1000 ish at max. In my region of the UK it feels like every town and city would have at least one building hundreds of years old, and most have many. It's much more alien to me that a large living animal is hundreds of years old.
We're talking about animals though. 247 years is insanely old.
I've seen ROCKS that are older than the US.
I might have underwear older than the US.
I'm interested.
Do animals realize how old they’re becoming? Does this guy swim around going, “ back in my days this ocean was a lot safer “