IT kicks off the bowhead whale as the oldest vertebrate animas. Meet the Greenland shark.
Using a new technique examining the shark’s eye nucleus, scientists at Copenhagen and Oxford universities said one shark they studied lived for 392 years.
[ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3,5″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ]At 400 years, the oldest of this species was born when Pope Paul V was persecuting Galileo,Pocahontas arrived in England and Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed in Shark Bay, Western Australia.
Greenland sharks are huge beasts, that can grow up to 5m in length.
They can be found, swimming slowly, throughout the cold, deep waters of the North Atlantic.
With this leisurely pace of life and sluggish growth rate, the sharks were thought to live for a long time.
But until now, determining any ages was difficult.
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