Posted by Ben C on 07/11/07 22:39

On 2007-07-11, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
> Ben C wrote:
>> On 2007-07-11, Neredbojias <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:50:23
>>> GMT Blinky the Shark scribed:
>> [...]
>>> Uh, you remember what happened to your albino cousin in "Jaws", don't you?
>>> There was fish goulash all along the New Jersey coast. Tasty, too. Ergo,
>>> you may find it behooves you not to mess with your evolutionary superiors.
>>
>> Sharks don't really have evolutionary superiors. They are a well
>> optimized design that has stayed basically the same for thousands of
>> millions of years.
>
> Thank you...thank you very much.

Of course not really thousands of millions, hundreds of millions. I was
forgetting that a billion is only a thousand million.

They go back 450 million years according to Wikipedia, with "modern"
sharks going back 100 million, which isn't all that old.

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