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    The New Yorker‏Verified account @NewYorker 1 Dec 2017

    Scientists estimate that one sixteen-foot-long Greenland shark has been alive for as long as five hundred and twelve years.pic.twitter.com/kN7puJjpsG

    Swimming with One of the World’s Oldest Sharks
    Scientists estimate that one sixteen-foot-long Greenland shark has been alive for as long as five hundred and twelve years.
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      2. Orange‏ @RhymesWthOrange 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @NewYorker @HellaHandbasket

        $100 bucks says not for long. It will be hunted by a republican for sport.

        1 reply 3 retweets 12 likes
      3. Helena Handbasket‏ @HellaHandbasket 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @RhymesWthOrange @NewYorker

        *laughs awkwardly until acknowledging the truth in this statement and dissolving into helpless weeping*

        0 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
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      2. Overeducated Flaneur‏ @JusAnothrLawyer 1 Dec 2017
        Replying to @NewYorker

        so why did they need BOTH of her lenses? Seems excessive for the ole girl

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. gonk droid‏ @famous_cacti 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @JusAnothrLawyer @NewYorker

        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 …

        2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
      4. Claire Pettie‏ @FozzyClaire78 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @famous_cacti @JusAnothrLawyer @NewYorker

        So they didn't remove the lenses of any living sharks in the video?

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. gonk droid‏ @famous_cacti 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @FozzyClaire78 @JusAnothrLawyer @NewYorker

        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

        1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
      6. Claire Pettie‏ @FozzyClaire78 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @famous_cacti @JusAnothrLawyer @NewYorker

        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.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. Claire Pettie‏ @FozzyClaire78 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @FozzyClaire78 @famous_cacti and

        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.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. gonk droid‏ @famous_cacti 3 Dec 2017
        Replying to @FozzyClaire78 @JusAnothrLawyer @NewYorker

        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

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      9. Overeducated Flaneur‏ @JusAnothrLawyer 3 Dec 2017
        Replying to @famous_cacti @FozzyClaire78 @NewYorker

        LOL I think she’s holding up mighty well considering they took her eyeballs out after 500 yrs- HA!

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      1. David Wilson‏ @mrdawilson 1 Dec 2017
        Replying to @NewYorker @jeremylindsayni

        David Wilson Retweeted BBC Breakfast

        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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        RIP Dave - the UK's longest earthworm (40cm), died on the way to London to be officially measured pic.twitter.com/ZMZqYBcRkA
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      1. Stuartj‏ @stuartjinc 1 Dec 2017
        Replying to @NewYorker

        That’s extraordinary, however, the poor thing must be bored to tears.

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      2. Jay Nagy‏ @ServoAcademy 1 Dec 2017
        Replying to @NewYorker @MissAmyBooks

        It's a living fossil! Better get these two geniuses on the job.pic.twitter.com/VAJKtK6MAi

        2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Amy Walker‏ @MissAmyBooks 1 Dec 2017
        Replying to @ServoAcademy

        "I KNOW!"

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Tibbs Brian | ティブス‏ @JukkaTibbs 1 Dec 2017
        Replying to @NewYorker

        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?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. Jamsoup‏ @Tkabies1 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @JukkaTibbs @NewYorker

        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?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. gonk droid‏ @famous_cacti 3 Dec 2017
        Replying to @Tkabies1 @JukkaTibbs @NewYorker

        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

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Tibbs Brian | ティブス‏ @JukkaTibbs 3 Dec 2017
        Replying to @famous_cacti @Tkabies1 @NewYorker

        I see, thanks for some extra information.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Beth  🇺🇸 🌊 #VoteThemOut‏ @BethR_27516 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @JukkaTibbs @famous_cacti and

        Beth  🇺🇸 🌊 #VoteThemOut Retweeted Dr. Achim Rumberger

        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 …

        Beth  🇺🇸 🌊 #VoteThemOut added,

        Dr. Achim Rumberger @achimrumberger
        Replying to @Mtn_Fox
        if it is a greenland shark, it blind anyway - almost all of them have a parasite attached to their eye. For other sharks - with their lateral positioned eyes the hardly have any stereoscopic vision
        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Antonio‏ @AntonioFardella 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @NewYorker

        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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