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Are sharks older than trees? It depends on how you define them
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Experts explain that while modern sharks emerged around 195 million years ago, making them younger than trees which evolved around 380 million years ago, the broader shark lineage traces back further to the Devonian period when extinct relatives of sharks existed.
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