Acidifying Oceans Could Eat Away at Sharks' Skin and Teeth

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

• Episode: Acidifying Oceans Could Eat Away at Sharks' Skin and Teeth
• Website: WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More
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• Duration: 00:05:39
• Published: 2019-12-25 12:12

For hundreds of millions of years, sharks have been roaming Earth’s oceans making meals out of a huge range of critters, from the whale shark gobbling up tiny krill to the 60-foot megalodon that could take down whales. Their ancestral line has survived mass extinctions with ease, most notably the catastrophe that took down the dinosaurs.