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Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)

by mooreds on 3/27/2026, 7:39:40 AM

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n09/katherine-rundell/consider-the-greenland-shark

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by: joshuaheard

Jeremy Wade, host of the TV show "River Monsters", has an episode where he investigates the Loch Ness Monster and concludes it's likely a Greenland Shark that swam up an underground river from the North Atlantic to the lake. He likens the shark's horse-like face and the distribution of the low fins on the shark's back to descriptions of the monster. A solitary long-living fish could explain the occasional sightings, and the scientists' findings that there is not enough food in the lake for a breeding population of large carnivores.

4/1/2026, 2:27:50 PM


by: frmersdog

There's a business lesson in the longest lived creatures being the ones that move slow, abide small insults, and make themselves generally unappetizing.

4/1/2026, 2:30:49 PM


by: jackconsidine

When H Melville stuffed the middle of <i>Moby Dick</i> with a &quot;cetology&quot; -- BEFORE <i>The Origin of Species</i>, famously saying &quot;a whale is a fish&quot; -- he didn&#x27;t forget the Greenland Shark. I think all the time about how many of those sharks swimming around in 1851 are still swimming around today.

4/1/2026, 1:40:48 PM