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Nov 30, 2025 8:24 PM
SquirrelWithATophat
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firni
Quite a few sharks survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event!
Wardonk3y
Meanwhile crabs after the big dies
KilroyLichking
gators
TheMightyMollusk
Gators are just heavily-armored land sharks.
VibratingNipples
Also turtles
Affray
Horseshoe crabs
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RedStarVidal
That's why we always see them later.
Jewdakris
I think I've been lied too, I keep seeing them after a while
RedStarVidal
No those are crocodiles.
magicrhombus
The mass extinction event that is human civilization is not sparing sharks.
DrSharkbite
fastjeff
That shark looks like he has PTSD.
KnifeKnut
KnifeKnut
The orca was unsuccessful.
DdCno1
More like countless orcas over the span of at least 100 years.
turdferguson74
Looks like close proximity to a spinning prop
KnifeKnut
SHARKS ARE NOT SMOOTH! https://i.redd.it/ua1kypnuvkr51.jpg
PatrickDiomedes
of course they are. Smooth in every direction
Telemapus
This guy sat on that thread all day answering back every rando who took three seconds to post "Sharks actually feel like sandpaper". He even took photos and cropped his own tweets etc. Talk about commitment to a bit.
forgotiwasfine
THANK YOU!!
WorksOnMyMachine
That link just had a bunch of people talking about how smooth they are, from every direction
Telemapus
It was funny for the first third, or maybe up until he posted his "Sharks Are Smooth as Hell" novel. Then it got boring.
TheCriticsWereConciseItOnlyTookFourLines
It says that they are smooth there
KnifeKnut
You need to go outside and touch shark.
TheCriticsWereConciseItOnlyTookFourLines
Repeatedly
TCooley79
Smooth as hell
Riggityriggitywrecked1
So smooth extinction events slide right off them.
iDONTKNOWstopaskingme
Dolphins… you’re thinking about dolphins!!!
Source: I’M A MARINE BIOLOGIST
timothyaolson2000
They had their own catastrophic extinction 90 million years ago. Look it up.
gablestout
The Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event (~93M years ago) did not result in shark extinction. Not even close.
Are you thinking of the early Miocene extinction event? That was 19M years ago.
timothyaolson2000
Got my 9's mixed up.
gablestout
What's 70 million years among friends? I knew about the early Miocene event, so I kept thinking, "did he mean 19"? But, turns out there was an underwater volcanic event ~93M years ago that flooded the oceans with CO2, causing anoxia. It wasn't global, though, so any species that was migratory or not specific to those areas (mainly Atlantic/Arctic and Indian Oceans) were OK. Sharks largely survived that one
TCooley79
But….theyre not extinct?
timothyaolson2000
There were two different types of ancient sharks. The largest group was totally eradicated, and over 90% of all sharks died with apparently no impact on other forms of life. This is a head scratcher for scientists.
Arbitrarynamehere
Shark civil war
fastjeff
There was no war, it was sharkocide.