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alphatsar · 2 years

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Ancient Elasmobranchii

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nazrigar · 5 months

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Pando - The Largest Single Organism by Mass and 14,000 years old, and some perspective on just how old that is.

A random thought came to my head last night...

This is Pando.

All of this? Is a single male aspen tree. This entire thing is a single tree with multiple stems sharing a single root system.

It is the largest tree by mass, and the heaviest single organism, weighing in at 6000 metric tons. For perspective, that's 20 blue whales in mass.

But what also intrigues me is that... well. It's an old tree.

Established in 12,000 BCE, meaning it would be 14000 years old by 2023.

By the the last Smilodons died out in 10,000 BCE, it would have already been 2000 years old.

And Pando is still a youngster compared to the high estimate age of this clonal colony of sea grass estimated to be 100,000 years old.

For perspective, when the last Neanderthal died in 40,000 BCE?

This sea grass would have already been 60,000 years old.

If human civilization (as in, the kind of organized polity that can be identified with things as "states" and "urbanization" among a plethora of other things) was established during 5000 BCE, and thus 7000 years old:

Pando would have already been 5000 years old.

The Sea grass colony would have already been 93,000 years old.

And considering that the oldest vertebrate, that is the Greenland Shark can live for 500 years?

All of human civilization encompasses the lifespans of just 14 Greenland Sharks.

I dunno... it just really shows that we pretty are a tiny blip in the grand scheme of Earth's geological history.

A very humbling thought if you ask me.

#paleontology #anthropology #history #ancient history #botany #science #human history #life on earth #pando #greenland sharks #shower thoughts

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sharkgirldick · 8 months

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You? My boyfriend? No, sweetheart, though it's really cute that you think so highly of yourself.

You're my boytoy.

#text post #image #adding the banner to this post like an ancient ward to keep spirits (cis men) away #shark thoughts

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spectral-snippets-and-drabbles · 10 months

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New Leaf!Au

Danny successfully completed his training to ascend to the throne and is taking a well earned vacation to celebrate. The time for said vacation time is a surprisingly long, long vacation but one he was happy to take one nonetheless! So he decided to travel the multiverse and found one that had heroes!

Surely he could finally kick back, relax and watch them handle things without his help, right? Especially after aiding them in taking down the guy with funny lazer eyes (he tore Darkseid to pieces in front of said heroes for them).

...Right?

After much gaslighting, feigning innocence, and speaking half-truths on his part, Danny is able to convince them that he's an alien that was the last of his kind with very few memories left of who he was. Thankfully, Martian ManHunter's mind reading abilities don't work on ghosts, so it made him sell his pitch all the more easily.

"I cannot sense them anymore...I am alone...Will I die alone too?"

So now the league of heroes with a bleeding heart take him in and give him a place to stay as a reserve member. After being told that his kind age rather slowly and that he's still considered a youngling, Dinah thinks socializing with younger people will do wonders for Phantom.

And for a while, things are going good until a certain Hellblazer comes rushing to the Leauge to inform the Leauge that the Infinite Realms has been ruined by Pariah Dark and freaks out when he sees Phantom wearing the Ring of Rage.

Something only one Ghost Royalty can wield. Pariah Dark was the last known King of the Realms.

However, due to a lack of knowledge from on the Infinite Realms' practices and culture, they can only speculate what the happened before Phantom found himself wandering around the place. This causes everyone to go crazy with several conspiracy theories.

The most popular ones are as follows, not in any specific tank or order:

1) Phantom has the Ring of Rage on his ring finger. Specifically, on his left ring finger.

Which has some speculating that he was the husband/consort/favored concubine to the king and was offered it to become Pariah's beloved. With all of his injuries, it's assumed Dark's enemy's tortured Phantom to the point of memory regression and so the enraged monarch sacked the Realms to either find him or enact revenge.

Phantom did mentioned he probably had children (Dan and Dani) and that his 'kind' don't need to be male and female exclusively to have offspring.

(He used Box Ghost and Lunch Lady as reference.)

2) Constantine with the knowledge of how one becomes king.

It's possible that Phantom took the title of King after challenging Pariah Dark to one on one combat and suffered a serious blow to his head in the fight to usurp the Tyrant, causing his amnesia.

Medical scans revealed a healed scar on the side of his head under his hair, giving some support to the theory. If that's the case, then their friend is a potential warrior king lost in the Land of the Living!

3) Constantine is taken at face value.

Phantom is Pariah Dark. When his subjects made a move to kill him, they failed and somehow banished him to the realm of the living in exile. If Phantom regained these old memories and truly was the old warlord standing before them, the Leauge would have to make contingency plans to eliminate him, as he laid one of the afterlives to near irreparable ruin.

(Batman's infamous paranoia makes things worse to the point where Danny may flee the universe if he were to use a contingency on him...everyone disliked that!)

4) A Victim of unjust Betrayal?

During his talks with Martian ManHunter, Phantom talked about pieces of memories of ungrateful people and how they saw him as a menace, even though he did everything possible to keep them safe. Everything became a blur after his last encounter with his enemies but couldn't recall what happened next. When he came to, the place was in ruin.

(So it's possible he pulled a Lobo, lashed out in his panicked state and damaged the realms under extreme stress after being harmed by the denizens of the Realms before running away to escape.)

5) Regressed through other means?

Constantine knows that some ghosts have an initial form after death, so he believes that there's a chance that Phantom is Pariah Dark just before he used his powers to become the Evil King, his amnesia making him regress back to the moment before he makes a final decision.

• Some Leaguers believe he's a ticking time bomb if he regained his old memories. One that they probably can't stop, as Constantine and the other magic users can sense some serious God-like power emanating from the Phantom and who definitely has legions of undead armies at his command with forgotten knowledge that would make Apokolips look tame in comparison.

• The others who are more compassionate believe that this could be a chance to help nudge Pariah Dark onto a better path to avoid becoming evil again. Better to help walk a just path and not give him a reason to believe the Leauge would harm him.

One things for certain; everyone believes Phantom is at the critical moment on the crossroad again that could very well make or break the safety of the both the Infinite Realms and Multiverse.

So they'll help him go down the path of Justice.

#danny phantom #justice league #dc x dp #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #He just wanted a break from being a hero ={#Danny is mentally screaming into a pillow #Clockwork and the Ancients are laughing their asses off at the notion of Danny being Dark's boytoy #The fact they think he's Pariah Dark's husband is making him want to die again #Ghosts in the DC multiverse rarely make it to Infinite Realms and are in Limbo #One contracted to Constantine finally made it through the veil and was horrified to see the state of the Infinite Realms #Said ghost couldn't find anyone because the piece of Constantine's soul is repels them #It's like when an orca kills a shark and every single shark for miles scatters #They don't want to be around something that so mangled #Constantine's informant is really late on news and thinks it's recent #The Leauge has outdated information #Everyone thinks Danny is Pariah Dark!au

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sharkie-malarkie · 3 months

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DYK…

megaladon had a cosmopolitan distribution; its fossils have been excavated from many parts of the world, including europe, africa, the americas, and australia.

megaladon or megatooth shark, which lived nearly worldwide roughly 15-3.6 million years ago and reached at least 50 feet (15 meters) in length, gave birth to babies larger than most adult humans. (6 foot)

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arthistoryanimalia · 9 months

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For #SharkAwarenessDay:

There are so many cool animal designs on Nazca ceramics - here are two polychrome vessels ringed with vertical sharks, on display at the Field Museum:

1. c. 100 BCE - 300 CE, Ica Region, Peru

2. c. 300 - 500 CE, Ica Region, Peru

#Nazca art #Peruvian art #South American art #Indigenous Art #Field Museum #museum visit #animal holiday #animals in art #Shark Awareness Day #shark #sharks #ceramics #polychrome #pre conquest art #ancient art

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ghostinthegallery · 7 months

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Necrons are younger than sharks

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#necrons #warhammer 40k #wh40k #sharks #not so ancient and powerful now are we #at least sharks don't have death rays #that we know of #is this a cursed 40k thought?#i think it's neat

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mikeru6 · 11 days

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fun fact, did you know that sharks existed before the North Star even formed? they also existed before TREES!

i love sharks

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elezenchaser-art · 9 months

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2023 Mermay

Hades: Blacktip Reef Shark Hythlodaeus: Coral Catshark

Copic Multiliners on paper

#my art #my-art #ffxiv #final fantasy #final fantasy xiv #mermay #npc #npcs #ancient #ancients #shark #sharks #Hades #Emet-Selch #emet selch #hythlodaeus #hyth #ascian

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despazito · 9 months

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Сладкая парочка твикс

#ancient russian proverb #yes thats a gummy shark he likes to roll around with anything aromatic

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subsequentibis · 6 months

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reposting this commission i got from @neonjawbone a little while back! these are two characters from a sideblog that i'm working on shaping up to put into underbelly and i love them very much <3 the guy with the short hair is luther and the guy with the braid is cam and there's a lot going on with them just in general

#underbelly #cam mersharc #luther algers #SO. cam's a sea god who usually takes the form of a giant shark mermaid but can shapeshift #he was still getting the hang of Proper Human Form at this point in the timeline. he gets it worked out further down the line #they r in gay love but cam accidentally drowns luther and luther comes back as a vengeful spirit to haunt cam #but he can't enact his revenge by killing cam bc cam is immortal. so they just have to like work it out #cam runs a bar in the underbelly bc i think it's funny when an incredibly powerful and ancient being does something mundane and small #luther floats around as a ghost being a bit of a lovable nuisance #and any time cam is like 'babe can you stop throwing bottles at people you don't like' luther's like 'idk can you undrown me'#so cam goes 'well can you at least throw cheaper alcohol'

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ancientorigins · 1 day

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There is said to be a shark that is scarier than the one from the movie Jaws which is as large as the biggest whale. But this isn’t a monster from a sci-fi movie, it’s real. This kind of shark lived in the oceans thousands of years ago and it's possible that it still lives in the deepest waters even today.

#ancient #shark #megadolon #history #deep sea #ocean #theory #ocean life

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leefi · 5 months

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i just know these two tiny short bitches are gonna ruin her fucking life

#GIRLLLL GET THEM OUT OF HEREEEEEE #berny is like a BABY SHARK #umineko #woof #its lambda and beat vs bern but this feels like it's gonna go wayside soooo fast #ok correction. berny is like one of those ancient old beasts who live a very long time but always look like cute baby animals because their #maximum size is small #i LOVE berny 🫶

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monkieninja · 7 months

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Finally, I found the reason, why is Sea Fairy is got cursed.

This curse of the eclipse.

Currently, she's free, don't worry!

[Sherbet's Story]

She was an unfrozen on this scene and she's talked to Sherbet himself.

So that's means, the story with Sorbet and Peppermint is happening, after "A Mermaid's Tale" story, but also before the time, where is Sherbet visit Cotton (current days).

But.. how is Eclipse is cursed her?

The powers of Mermaids is actually connected to Almighty Sea herself. So that's mean, Sea Fairy on time of Eclipse become weaker..

But Eclipse is somehow cursed her and turned her into frozen statue.

I need to more watch about Tower of Frozen Waves story

#sea fairy cookie #sherbet cookie #sorbet shark cookie #peppermint cookie #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #crk #a mermaid's tale #tower of frozen waves #cookie run lore and his chronology is hard..#especially lore of Ancients and Legendaries #i want to discuss about this more.. because Ancient Cookies lore is hard but harder can be only dragons lore from Ovenbreak

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alex-fictus · 1 month

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What group of animals should come next??

#paleontology #paleoart #shark #ancient shark #megalodon #helicoprion #xenacanthus #stethacanthus #mosasaurus #dunkleosteus #paleontologist #my art #my stickers #stickers #sticker art

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sharkie-malarkie · 2 months

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port Jackson sharks?

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port jackson sharks are considered to be harmless, however, if provoked they could pose a threat.

port jackson sharks are a nocturnal, bottom dwelling 'bullhead' shark endemic to the Great Southern Reef. these sharks grow up to 1.65m and can live for more than 30 years. they usually live at depths of less than 100 metres but have been known to go as deep as 275 metres.

port jackson sharks are not an endangered species and is not used as a common food supply. it is, however, useful when scientists are hoping to study bottom-dwelling sharks and can be vulnerable to being caught as bycatch.

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