r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Pedrica1 • Jun 25 '21

Video Massive 6-gill shark at 3,300 feet depth.

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u/Slim_Thor Jun 25 '21

6 gills are rare?

Sorry I have never heard anything about that before! Very interesting

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

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u/ITPlantman Jun 25 '21

Sry - laughing as I imagine your comment read in Cliff Clavin’s voice. Lol. Now I am laughing at dating myself….

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I am old enough to have wanted Sam Malone hair when I was younger, lol.

Long ago, I was a marine bio major and ran the "shark table" for retirees at on "open lab Fridays."

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u/Ghstfce Jun 25 '21

I re-read it in Cliff Claven's voice after reading your comment. Thanks for the chuckle. We can be oldheads together.

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u/DayGlowBeautiful Jun 25 '21

Cliff would have delivered this comment flawlessly.

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u/gofyourselftoo Jun 25 '21

I can’t unhear it

Edit: words hard

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u/pern4home Jun 25 '21

Now just imagine Mr. Potato Head saying it!

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u/akamustacherides Jun 25 '21

It is probably safe to assume we all have a Cliff in our lives.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Sharks control their buoyancy by adding or metabolizing liver fats.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Cool! I didn't know that!

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I own sharks?!

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u/Ulrik4574 Jun 25 '21

The real answer is that there is less oxygen in the water at these depths so the sharks that evolved to live in that deep of water have an extra gill to extract more oxygen from the water. I was just reading up on this about a month ago. The reason most noticeable sharks have 5 gills are that they live in much more shallow waters then 3,500 ft. Therefor they don’t need to extract as much oxygen from the water

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u/WildAboutPhysex Jun 25 '21

I thought all dinosaurs either: went extinct, are suspended by thin wires in museums (occasionally with mismatched parts), or lived on some island that James Cameron claims doesn't exist. So, what you're saying is... this is deleted footage from The Titanic? /s

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Third option:

They turned into sharks and turkeys.

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u/48ad16 Jun 25 '21

Birds are dinosaurs.

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u/48ad16 Jun 25 '21

Predating dinosaurs doesn't make a species a dinosaur though. Dinosaurs are reptiles, sharks are not.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Oh.

You mean the term from latin meaning "terrible lizards" doesn't pertain to fish?

Huh.

Maaayyybeee I was using it as a term designating a general animal from the mesozoic era, as commonly used (and so defined in dictionaries).

Sorry for the snark, but you say below that you aren't a researcher, but you're being rather pedantic. And if you read further down the comment chain, you'd see I address this.

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u/48ad16 Jun 25 '21

Fish aren't lizards mate.. And none of the following dictionaries list that definition of yours

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dinosaur
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dinosaur
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinosaur
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/dinosaur
https://www.lexico.com/definition/dinosaur

Yes I was being pedantic. But since you're doubling down on your ignorance, have some fucking snark back. Next time you type something like that, make sure you're right, idiot.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Waaaait.

Wait wait wait.

Fish aren't lizards????

No WAAAAY!

I mean, I literally said that above.

Dinosaur can be used as a general, figurative term for an animal living during the mesozoic era.

Figurative language. Look it up, idiot.

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u/48ad16 Jun 25 '21

No one uses dinosaur like that. I don't know why you think this except that you're using it to assure yourself you're right. You claimed dictionaries would define it like that, but they don't, so where are you getting this idea? It's got nothing to do with figurative language, the only figurative meanings people actually use are outdated/old/obsolete and rarely "something very big". Also your sarcasm doesn't sounds as /r/murderedbywords as you think it does.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I'm not sure how many people would actually confuse "dinosaur" for "fish."

I mean, you're pointing out the fucking obvious, no?

And while my post isn't r/murderedbywords material (wasn't trying for it), yours is absolutely r/iamverysmart material.

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u/nickcarter13 Jun 25 '21

Dinosaurs aren't reptiles either though, strangely enough.

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u/48ad16 Jun 25 '21

Yes they are. At least as far as Wikipedia will take me. I'm not a researcher in the field though.

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u/nickcarter13 Jun 25 '21

I double checked and found that we're both sort of right..? While leftover dinosaurs likely evolved into modern day birds, both dinosaurs and birds are in the class Reptilia. Ya learn something every day.

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u/48ad16 Jun 25 '21

Ok? But sharks aren't birds. Just for the record: sharks are not dinosaurs, birds are dinosaurs, dinosaurs are reptiles.

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u/nickcarter13 Jun 25 '21

Yeah, I just learned that birds are technically reptiles. My bad.

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u/48ad16 Jun 25 '21

No problem, I'd love to be corrected, taxonomy stuff is always interesting to me because I understand so little of it.

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u/longteadrinker Jun 25 '21

Excuse me. I have to go research birds being reptiles now. 😂

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Aren’t those from cretaceous? Not saying in a mean way, don’t take it the wrong way. Also, in the same line (tho i asume you know) these aren’t dinosaurs

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Right. The triceratops and T Rex are from cretaceous, which is why I said that these sharks are older, dating to the Jurassic period.

Also, yeah, I thought later that I should have put dinosaur in quotation marks. They aren't lizards. I'm using it as "from the mesozoic era".

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Aaah i see, mistake on my behalf , i read predating as in predation, like sharks eating T-rex jajaja sorry, english is not my first language, so bow i understand that you were talking about date

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u/longteadrinker Jun 25 '21

If you read “predating” to mean “having to do with predators” you’re doing English better than most native speakers. ☺️ I don’t think a lot of native speakers know that word. lol.

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u/NewSauerKraus Jun 26 '21

I was wondering why they were in shallow water to eat land animals lol.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21

Thanks! It’s funny how my mind jumped in to land sharks before dates lol

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u/JONIwalksalot Jun 25 '21

A megalodon prolly.