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How did she get there? This is exactly the reason I don't trust my GPS. Poor girl got re-routed. 
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How did she get there? This is exactly the reason I don't trust my GPS. Poor girl got re-routed.
They've always been here. We're just now getting technology to a point whwre we can track them efficiently and in more numbers. It makes for great headlines but I'd be shocked if any marine biologists were surprised. The ocean doesn't have fences.
As I read the article it didn't seem like there were many. And closer to shore mainly juveniles. Maybe I read too far into it thinking this was not a normal critter for the area.
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Oh im sure from our limited understanding it's new and fascinating. We've mapped more of the surface of other planets than we have our own oceans. The ocean is a vastly unexplored and unknown place, the critters inside it even more so. Tracking sharks is relatively new, it seems like every few months there's a new article, great white in Chesapeake bay, great white off the coast of néw York, great white off the coast of the Carolinas, great white off the coast of Alabama. What I'm getting at is those sharks have likely done it for thousands of years white regularity, it's just now that we have the technology with satellite tags to see it. To us its shocking news.
Here's a good example that John and I were talking about last night. Cypress knees. Believe it or not, nobody knows their purpose. We understand the cambian layer of trees and how they move nutrients and water through capillary action. We even have electron microscope video of it. We understand photosynthesis and how trees operate. Yet biologist still don't know why cypress knees exist or what they do. No idea, just guesses. Yet here they are doing their thing like they have for likely million of years.
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