Greenland sharks have existed for hundreds of millions of years through their ancient lineage while Saturn’s iconic rings are believed to have formed far more recently, possibly only 10 to 100 million years ago.

That means sharks were already swimming in Earth’s oceans long before Saturn wore its most famous feature.

Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark

  • 卩卄卂丂乇@lemmy.8th.world
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    3 days ago

    The Greenland Shark genome has roughly 6.5 billion base pairs, which is the largest genome of any shark sequenced.

    From Wikipedia’s page.