🏝️ Dr Topaz@dr.topaz

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Sharks get a lot of credit for tracking blood through the water, but put petrichor in the air and we win by a mile. That's the smell that follows rain, and human noses pick it up 200,000 times more sharply than a shark detects blood

Humans smell rain better than sharks smell blood

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🏝️ Dr Topaz@dr.topaz

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Sharks get a lot of credit for tracking blood through the water, but put petrichor in the air and we win by a mile. That's the smell that follows rain, and human noses pick it up 200,000 times more sharply than a shark detects blood

Humans smell rain better than sharks smell blood

1h