I could probably call myself a science buff as well, but mainly for physics. It's nice to think that some creatures have lived undisturbed under the ocean for millions of years, oblivious to our apparition and domination of the planet. In some ways, I really hope that many of them stay that way, since we would probably do them more harm than good. Look at the orange roughy for example. Fishers mindlessly dragged great trawl nets across the deep sea because someone thought orange roughy tasted nice. Turned out that the fish were hundreds of years old, and that irreparable damage had been done to their population had been done as a result of the fishing.
You are correct, humans seem to have a way of destroying things, and I could just imagine if people could prove that say...megalodon still existed. A bunch of people would be out trying to catch this creature for shark fin soup or other reason which could decimate it's population to the point that it actually became extinct.
Thinks there's a possibilty that Megalodon still exists today?
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I could probably call myself a science buff as well, but mainly for physics. It's nice to think that some creatures have lived undisturbed under the ocean for millions of years, oblivious to our apparition and domination of the planet. In some ways, I really hope that many of them stay that way, since we would probably do them more harm than good. Look at the orange roughy for example. Fishers mindlessly dragged great trawl nets across the deep sea because someone thought orange roughy tasted nice. Turned out that the fish were hundreds of years old, and that irreparable damage had been done to their population had been done as a result of the fishing.
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You are correct, humans seem to have a way of destroying things, and I could just imagine if people could prove that say...megalodon still existed. A bunch of people would be out trying to catch this creature for shark fin soup or other reason which could decimate it's population to the point that it actually became extinct.