Which apex predator roaming the oceans right now could technically have been born before the printing press was invented?

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Greenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrates on Earth, with a lifespan that can exceed 400 years due to their incredibly slow metabolism and the freezing temperatures of their deep ocean habitat.

Greenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrates on Earth, with a lifespan that can exceed 400 years due to their incredibly slow metabolism and the…

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Moray eels possess a terrifying secondary set of jaws located entirely in their throat that forcefully shoots forward to drag captured prey down into their digestive tract.

Moray eels possess a terrifying secondary set of jaws located entirely in their throat that forcefully shoots forward to drag captured prey down into their…

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Lobsters possess an enzyme called telomerase that constantly repairs their DNA and prevents their cells from aging, meaning they do not technically suffer from biological…

Lobsters possess an enzyme called telomerase that constantly repairs their DNA and prevents their cells from aging, meaning they do not technically suffer…

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Sea cucumbers have bypassed the standard evolutionary route for respiration by developing a highly specialized respiratory tree that forces them to physically breathe through their own anuses.

Sea cucumbers have bypassed the standard evolutionary route for respiration by developing a highly specialized respiratory tree that forces them to physically…

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Inside your cells hums an ancient suicide plan called apoptosis — programmed cell death.

Inside your cells hums an ancient suicide plan called apoptosis — programmed cell death. Too much, and tissues waste away; too little, and diseases bloom.…

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Coral reefs remember nuclear fallout

When the US military detonated a 15-megaton thermonuclear bomb over Bikini Atoll in 1954, they gave the ocean a permanent radioactive tramp stamp. The fallout…

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Which apex predator roaming the oceans right now could technically have been born before the printing press was invented?

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Greenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrates on Earth, with a lifespan that can exceed 400 years due to their incredibly slow metabolism and the freezing temperatures of their deep ocean habitat.

Moray eels possess a terrifying secondary set of jaws located entirely in their throat that forcefully shoots forward to drag captured prey down into their digestive tract.

Lobsters possess an enzyme called telomerase that constantly repairs their DNA and prevents their cells from aging, meaning they do not technically suffer from biological…

Sea cucumbers have bypassed the standard evolutionary route for respiration by developing a highly specialized respiratory tree that forces them to physically breathe through their own anuses.

Inside your cells hums an ancient suicide plan called apoptosis — programmed cell death.

Coral reefs remember nuclear fallout

A bigger world.
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at a time.