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Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Greenland sharks are pretty amazing

They can grow up to 24 feet putting them at the same giant scale as great whites and basking sharks, but most are usually closer to 5 meters long

They can live for hundreds of years due to extremely slow metabolism and ambush feeding, some individuals found around 400 years old are as old as the Jamestown colony, Don Quixote, and the discovery of logarithms.

They are opportunistic feeders and have been found with polar bear and reindeer in their digestive systems, and can pull/vacuum in water to catch their primary prey of fish, eels, and other sharks.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Back to the horrors of the deep...

They also commonly have eye parasites that severely impairs their vision or blinds them called Ommatokoita elongata.

So they get to live long with multiple generations of parasites stuck in their eyes they can't get out.

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