There is nothing about being ancient beyond all proper comprehension that makes something less scary
Yeah well I couldn’t beat a shark to death with a chair before trees existed, that’s my primary means of shark defense!
Sharks have been around since before Polaris (yes the North star) was born which, personally, I think is cooler than being older than trees
Was born, or it’s light reached earth?
It’s only ~466ly away, so both
it’s light
Aye, it is light.
At around 1.7 million times the weight of the Earth, it’s not all that light.
😂🫶🏻
Woopsie
Another fun tree fact I heard, the reason why coal exists was because trees existed on land for a long time before decomposers existed to digest their fibers. They just died and were buried intact. This actually caused a problem with sequestering so much CO2 that the earth went into an ice age.
Edit for clarification: decomposers did exist but they couldn’t decompose tree lignin specifically so it just stayed around.
They existed before fire (before the oxygen levels sustained fire on the surface)
Wuuuut??!
Edit: 420MY ago: https://presearch.com/search?q=when+did+surface+fires+became+possible+on+earth%3F
What about people afraid of jellyfish? They’re older than bones
how bout germophobes; bacteria and other microbes had already been around for 2.5 billion years before any multicellular life evolved. for over 70% of the history of life, they were the only thing that existed
Meanwhile the tardigrade, "Who brought the sharks?’
I’m not scared
This fucker fucks.
A lot of things are older than furniture. Furniture dates to the pleistocene at the earliest.
Better yet: sharks existed before our notion of FIRE.
I always find this very funny. It’s as if the sharks today are venerable million year old entities. As if the species sharks today have anything in common with the shark species 100 million years ago.
The horseshoe crab fits much better in this sentiment, as they haven’t physically changed at all this whole time.
