The claim that researchers discovered a 512-year-old Greenland Shark is based on a real study from August 2016, but that figure was a highest-possible estimate and not the actual determined age of ...

A recently identified 512-year-old Greenland shark may be the world’s oldest living vertebrate. Although scientists discovered the 18-foot fish in the North Atlantic months ago, its age was only ...

While they knew that this shark had definitely reached senior age, they didn't realize until recently that the animal is estimated to be a whopping 512 years old. At 512 years, that would make ...

The oldest shark studied was likely about 392 years old. Radiocarbon dating has 95 percent certainty, meaning that the shark's true age could range between 272 and 512 years.

Headlines circulating on the internet today (Dec. 14) breathlessly described the discovery of a 512-year-old shark — but they're a little off the mark. The creature in question — a Greenland ...

We don't know a whole lot about the Greenland shark, ... Calm down, scientists didn’t discover a 512-year-old shark. (It’s probably like 400, tops.) December 15, 2017.

Now, radiocarbon dating is a process that yields results with a 95 percent of certainty, meaning that the actual age of the shark could be between 272 and 512 years old. It's worth noting that ...

Scientists studying Greenland sharks observed the particularly old specimen just recently, and after studying it they’ve determined that the creature is approximately 272 to 512 years old.

That means the shark could, in theory, be 512 years old. ... “Our lifespan study is based on the carbon-14 dating of Greenland shark eye lenses,” he said in a statement in 2016.

A new study suggests the Greenland shark can live up to 400 years old. ... “I am 95% certain that the oldest of these sharks is between 272 and 512 years old,” said lead author Julius ...

Reports from 2016 of a 512-year-old shark living off the coast of Greenland have resurfaced, fascinating the world with the fact that a fish could live for many human generations.

Greenland Shark Is At Least 272 Years Old. August 11, 2016 2:03 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. Nell ... "It was, with 95 percent certainty, between 272 and 512 years old," he says.