Sorry Twitter, this Greenland shark is not actually full of pee
Twitter can be a wasteland of heart-wrenching breaking news, trolls, and poorly placed promoted content — but then there are the metal cats and the random factoids, like this viral Twitter thread about Greenland sharks that threw the Verge newsroom into a frenzy today.
in other words: this shark’s body is full of pee. pee shark.
— um jammer trans g (@joffeorama) August 30, 2017
The Twitter thread went on to say that the Greenland sharks — which live in Arctic waters — can live 500 years, have glowing parasites attached to their eyes, and are eaten in a “fermented pee shark dish” in Iceland. So I called some scientists to fact-check this thread. And…
