The Greenland shark, known formally as Somniosus microcephalus, holds a distinction no other vertebrate can claim: it can live for centuries. These slow-moving predators glide through frigid Arctic ...
There are sharks alive today who were around when Isaac Newton was sitting under the apple tree, and it's all thanks to their slow metabolism ...
A viral social media post has highlighted the Greenland shark, a species scientifically estimated to live for centuries, with ...
A Greenland shark swimming through the North Atlantic today may have been alive before the modern world existed. Researchers have confirmed that some of these sharks were born in the 1600s, making ...
A baited camera captured a sleeper shark in the Southern Ocean for the first time. Sharks have survived mass extinctions, ...
Previous research has suggested that Greenland sharks had impaired vision, so Fogg wasn’t expecting to discover anything ...