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TIL Sharks are Older than Trees. The first organisms we’d recognize as trees (the extinct genus Archaeopteris) didn’t appear until roughly 350 million years ago, at least 50–100 million years afte... (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Original Title: TIL Sharks are Older than Trees. The first organisms we’d recognize as trees (the extinct genus Archaeopteris) didn’t appear until roughly 350 million years ago, at least 50–100 million years after sharks were already cruising the oceans.

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