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Sharks Are Older Than Trees
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Sharks are older than trees. And that is not even the strangest part.
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The first sharks swam more than four hundred million years ago.
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Trees did not show up for another fifty million years after that.
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Sharks have survived five mass extinctions, including the one that ended the dinosaurs.
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They can feel the tiny electric pulse of a heartbeat hidden under the sand.
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They were here before the trees. They will probably be here after us.
