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MEBRO
10/31/26 · 6:28 PM UTC · 9 SOURCES
“Sharks are older than trees.”
MEDIUM CONFIDENCE
TL;DR ·Sharks' lineage predates trees by tens of millions of years, though modern shark species do not.
The claim is largely accurate for the shark lineage. The Natural History Museum traces shark evolution across a 450 million year timeline and says sharks appear in the fossil record before trees even existed . Snopes likewise dates shark ancestry to about 450 million years ago . Trees emerged later, in the Middle Devonian, roughly 385 million years ago, with Archaeopteris as the earliest tree-like form . Other sources agree, with one estimating sharks predate trees by about 65 million years . Clarification needed: Live Science notes that modern shark species are not older than trees, because the earliest shark ancestors were quite different from today's sharks . The claim holds when it refers to the shark lineage and needs this caveat for modern species.
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