$100 bucks says not for long. It will be hunted by a republican for sport.
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*laughs awkwardly until acknowledging the truth in this statement and dissolving into helpless weeping*
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so why did they need BOTH of her lenses? Seems excessive for the ole girl
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The reporting in the video is incredibly confusing. I had to google to figure out that the eye lenses are from shark cadavers caught in fishermen's trawlshttps://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-strange-and-gruesome-story-of-the-greenland-shark-the-longest-living-vertebrate-on-earth …
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So they didn't remove the lenses of any living sharks in the video?
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They did not. It's just poorly written. And now because the captions explained it so badly, we're all watching this wondering why scientists are torturing a 500-year-old shark
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Thank you! I'd mistakenly clicked on a different article about this and was having trouble figuring out how that moment in the video came into play.
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Plus, the New Yorker article talks about them removing lenses from sharks caught in the fishing trawl nets, but doesn't specify if those sharks are alive or dead, either.
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But they do find the time to go on for paragraphs about how ugly they think the sharks are! The NYer really has it in for this poor shark somehow. She's a beautiful shark imo and she's doing a great job
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LOL I think she’s holding up mighty well considering they took her eyeballs out after 500 yrs- HA!
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Reminds me of the time
@EmmaSherlock4 and@NHM_London got hold of the UK's longest earthworm and promptly killed him in the name of science. Keep them well away from this shark please.#JusticeForDave#DaveTheWormhttps://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/794426253868679168 …
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That’s extraordinary, however, the poor thing must be bored to tears.
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It's a living fossil! Better get these two geniuses on the job.pic.twitter.com/VAJKtK6MAi
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"I KNOW!"
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Carbon dating on live organisms made me question if the shark lady still needed her eyes lens? Still a 240 years gap? That is as un-precise as the minimum carbon decay of the particular method used. Where's the story here?
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I was thinking the exact same thing. With that discrepancy it just was not worth disturbing the sharks peace. Who funded this lunacy and why?
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They didn't hurt the live shark, it's just a badly reported video. The eye lenses were collected from dead sharks found in fishermens' bycatch
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I see, thanks for some extra information.
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Thanks for helping to clarify (although it would have been better if
@NewYorker had made it clearer). Also, regarding the tracking device...https://twitter.com/achimrumberger/status/937330845005877248 …
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Why torture a living creature? Now, in contact with humans, it's lifespan will decrease for sure. Just let them be. Where is the purpose to find out how old is that shark?!
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