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merijn2 t1_ir71trz wrote

The animation is not very exciting, but the discovery of this fish is. Broadly speaking, fish fall into two groups: jawless fish (only a small number of living species, including the lamprey, but once the only type of fish), and the jawed fish, which includes the vast majority of the fish. The jawed fish can also be divided into two groups: the bony fish, which is the majority of fish, including our own ancestors, and the cartilaginous fish, which are sharks, rays, skates and chimaeras. This creature has just been found, and is a very old member of the cartilaginous fish, so related to modern sharks, and is the oldest known jawed fish, as they say it lived 420 million years ago.

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merijn2 t1_iqvsf0s wrote

He was nicknamed Koning Gorilla, which is quite unfair to gorillas. He was known to have tempers, and turned violent towards people employed in his court. One thing he did was asking one of his employers to light his cigar with a matchstick, and then wait so long that the employer had to extinguish the match, otherwise he would burn his finger, and then the king withheld his salary for two weeks as a punishment for not lighting his cigar. He was also a staunch conservative, and he was very angry that a year before he became king the constitution of The Netherlands became much more liberal, limiting the power of the king. He mellowed down after his second marriage apparently.

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