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A Greenland shark that outlived the piano's invention, on Bizarre Beasts

Hank Green and Sarah Suta's monthly beast is the North Atlantic's slow sleeper shark, aged by carbon dating its eyes, and the episode passed 170,000 views in four days.

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This Shark is Toxic (So It Doesn't Freeze)

Bizarre Beasts sits just under 400,000 subscribers, and its one new episode this month is about an animal in no hurry at all. "This Shark is Toxic (So It Doesn't Freeze)" goes down into the cold, dark North Atlantic for the Greenland shark, a huge sleeper shark that the description says can outlive every other vertebrate on the planet.

The tags point to how anyone knows that: radiocarbon dating. Measuring an individual animal's age that way is the detail viewers keep coming back to, along with a line in the script about a shark that lived through the invention of the piano and got nothing out of it. Several commenters want to play it some music. Others ask about seals, recite the shark's scientific name, Somniosus microcephalus ("small head"), with affection, or praise the episode's enamel pin. The pin's designer turned up in the comments to thank everyone.

The shark arrived with a strong first day and is still bringing in about 30,000 views a day. That has lifted the whole channel to well over three times its usual daily pace. The older episodes, a history of how cattle became an extinction machine (starting with their wild ancestor, the aurochs) and a salamander that skydives from redwood canopies, are only ticking along beside it.

Among the science channels nearest its size, Ziroth and the two Astrum channels are having the loud weeks. Bizarre Beasts keeps to its own rhythm: one beast a month, and this month's is a shark that seems to agree with it.

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What viewers say

''Lived through but did not benefit from the invention of the piano'' makes me want to play piano music to Greenland sharks
@slashfilledmindSee it on YouTube
having to literally carbon date an individual animal to find out how long its been alive for is insane
@zelenpixelSee it on YouTube
I'm the artist who designed the pins for this episode, I'm so glad everyone loves them! The animations the team made with the art is so darn cute too. Thank you all for the episode, it makes me love these sharks even more!! :)
@JomajabaSee it on YouTube

7 more comments

GreenLand sharks are the epitome of "Just Chill Man".
@stax6092See it on YouTube
Greenland shark: "The cold never bothered me anyway 😒"
@GandalfTheTsaaganSee it on YouTube
Sleepy Smallhead is my new favorite scientific name.
@gussnarpSee it on YouTube
So if I want to live a really long time, I need to...
Replace 1%-2% of my blood with antifreeze
Live underwater where there's almost no light, enormous pressure, and the temp is at or slightly below freezing
Eat anything that I find
Not have children until im over 100 years old
Let crustaceans live on my eyeballs
Move exceptionally slowly
@firstcynic92See it on YouTube
That pin design is seriously gorgeous
@CaptainPIanetSee it on YouTube
5:11 For reference that the same speed the Moon is currently drifting away from Earth at
@askthebubble28See it on YouTube
«Death by Bycatch» will be the next concept album of my Metal Sea Shanty band
@fariesz6786See it on YouTube

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The facts

Channel: Bizarre Beasts
Subscribers: 399,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 216,536
Videos published this week: 1
Video published: October 5, 2026
Video views so far: 169,923
Views on its first day: 64,802

The numbers

Here is how Bizarre Beasts' shark month looks so far.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Astrum Earth

3,197,878

Astrum Extra

1,543,590

Ziroth

588,265

Looking Glass Universe

317,563

243,126

216,536

169,854

118,069

76,580

subscribers

399,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

32,990,968

views per day

63,285

typical day: 17,966

first-day views of each video posted this week

This Shark is Toxic (So It Doesn't Free…

64,802

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Ziroth

522,000

Astrum Earth

490,000

Looking Glass Universe

468,000

448,000

399,000

392,000

334,000

326,000

299,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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