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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
ā Arthur C. Clarke
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While other vertebrates, such as the rougheye rockfish and the bowhead whale, can reach an impressive age of around 200 years, the Greenland shark is by far the longest-lived vertebrate with some estimates as high as 512 years.
Amie Pearce ā¢ The longevity of the Greenland shark
In a world of seven billion people, where every inch of land has been mapped, much of it developed, and too much of it destroyed, the sea remains the final unseen, untouched, and undiscovered wilderness, the planetās last great frontier. There are no mobile phones down there, no e-mails, no tweeting, no twerking, no car keys to lose, no terrorist
... See moreJames Nestor ā¢ Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
I'm not sure I would've believed that a blue whales heartbeat can be heard from 3km away, until I saw how big they are š¤Æ
Amy Pearce
Part of our job, then, as parents, is to teach our kids to deal with the impermanence of these connections. When Katie and I got our kids their first pet, a brilliantly purple betta fish, we viewed it as being a lesson in death and loss (bettas only live a few years) as much as a lesson in caretaking.