🚿(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
collection inspired by sharks 🦈
🚿(under)water
Sharks are essentially living fossils, having glided through the Earth’s oceans for over 400 million years already. They have outlasted the dinosaurs and have survived mass extinction events to become one of the most successful and enduring groups of animals on the planet.
Amie Pearce • The evolution of sharks
“whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal”
Do sharks taste their food?
Yes, sharks have small bumps in their mouths that contain numerous taste buds. So, they do taste their food and will reject it if it doesn’t meet their standards (which is why great whites are known to bite humans but not typically eat them).
Yes, sharks have small bumps in their mouths that contain numerous taste buds. So, they do taste their food and will reject it if it doesn’t meet their standards (which is why great whites are known to bite humans but not typically eat them).
Paul Richards • What Do Sharks Eat?
Destruction of Leviathan — Gustave Doré (1865)
Six months ago, I looked up how to humanely euthanize a sick fish on Reddit. I found a method and now my fish is dead.
Since then, Reddit has sent an email every week with novel ways to kill fish of all sizes.
The algorithm must think I’m a fish mass murderer. It won’t stop.
Since then, Reddit has sent an email every week with novel ways to kill fish of all sizes.
The algorithm must think I’m a fish mass murderer. It won’t stop.