True Facts: The Curious Adaptations of Sharks
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Dr Barbara E. Wueringer, Sharks and Rays Australia
In Australia please report your sawfish sightings to www.cytags.com
Dr George Lauder, Harvard University, https://twitter.com/georgelauder
Jonathan R. Green, https://www.galapagoswhaleshark.org
Dr David Gruber, https://www.instagram.com/davidfgruber
Dr Andrew Chin, James Cook University
Dr Dean Grubbs, Florida State University
Dr Brooke Flammang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Marco Carè : TGI Maldives-TGI Halaveli
Anna & Ned DeLoach, https://www.blennywatcher.com/
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Florida Scuba Divers, https://www.youtube.com/@FloridaScubaDivers
Julie Higgs, https://www.youtube.com/@JulieHiggs_Spearfishing
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Fat Fish Movies, https://www.youtube.com/@FatFishMovies
AboveDeck, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lXIsTXYCYI
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Smithsonian Institute
Airflow across a wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqBmdZ-BNig
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Fun fact: There is a venomous freshwater shark called a Spiny Dogfish or Spurdog shark.
“Many sharks can swim quite quickly. This comes in handy, because sharks live in places where there are sharks.”
This is both hilarious and profound. I love your writing.
They not wrong
Well smaller sharks needs to watch out for bigger sharks.
The walking one can survive out if water a long time and walk on land js
It’s also tiny tho it could at max take a hand/foot
But yeah 30 meters and 2 hours of hypoxia so yeah
😂😂😂 I laughed harder at that than I should have
“sharks live in places where there are sharks” is definitely one of the True Facts of all time
For a shark, hell is definitely other sharks.
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“Every time you see a shark your ear whispers to your nose, ‘that could have been us'”.
Thank you Ze Frank! I never knew why the hell they kept doing that until today!
Huh. For me, it’s me nose whispering to one of me ears bc NOSES CAN’T HEAR. But ears can hear
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I could watch this man talk about any topic for hours 😂
Sometimes I wonder how much more educated I could’ve been if public education made learning even half as fun as this man does. 😂
And that is why he makes school-safe versions now. So that the new generation can be better educated than us.🙂
@Grant Morgan Wait, so what you’re saying is that testicles, penis and mushy-mushy aren’t school safe? /s
@Free Chilli I am pretty sure that there are places where parents can sue and get teachers fired for saying mushy-mushy.
Unfortunately learning isn’t just learning awesome facts in a comedic format, I wish it was
We all wonder that too!😅❤
how is 15 minutes of Ze Frank more informative than 5 weeks of shark week
As a physicist, I will never refer to turbulence as anything other than ‘mushy-mushy’ ever again.
What about swirly – swirly?
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As a wastewater/water treatment operator, the turbulence in my water is most often caused by “mushy-mushy.”
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The level of research and effort invested in these videos is truly astounding. Additionally, he manages to transform mundane topics into an enjoyable learning experience.
Ze, Jerry, and the science Nerds, Thanks for taking all the facty facts stuff from shark week and breaking it down to 15mins. No annoying B-list celeb’s makes it even better!
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