Could sharks survive in the city?
What if the sharks from the old Street Sharks cartoon were real? Big muscles, legs, walking around New York like total jawsome bros. Could we actually make a shark that lives on land? Or is that a science fiction dream that should stay in the 90s?
In this episode, Jake and Chauntée dive into some seriously wild ideas about bioengineering and evolution. How do scientists make jellyfish glow? Could genetic engineering ever turn a shark into a pet that walks next to you like a golden retriever? And why have sharks barely changed in millions of years while city raccoons figured out how to open trash cans in a few decades?
We also get into how fast (or slow) evolution happens, why birds sing louder in noisy cities, and what biomimicry can teach us about solving human problems without messing up nature.
If you could modify any animal, what would you change? And would a city full of street sharks be chaos or kind of cool?
Keep being jawsome!
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