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Greenland sharks have existed for hundreds of millions of years through their ancient lineage while Saturn’s iconic rings are believed to have formed far more recently, possibly only 10 to 100 million years ago.

That means sharks were already swimming in Earth’s oceans long before Saturn wore its most famous feature.

Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark

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[–] nbsp@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Genetic data indicate that Greenland sharks diverged from ancestral sleeper sharks in the Canadian Arctic approximately 1–2.34 million years ago

you are off by a bit?!?

early sharks existed back then, not greenland sharks.

i only know this bc the very fun zoo of us podcast did an ep on sharks last week https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/333-great-white-shark/id1463896106?i=1000763230492

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Only because Greenland didn't exist back then

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 15 hours ago

Greenland separated about 130m years ago.