A shark was found in the Caribbean — thousands of miles away from its usual habitat in the Arctic. The Greenland shark, which has a lifespan of 250 – 500 years, surprised researchers in Belize.

But, it looked a lot like a Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus). After conferring with several Greenland shark experts, the final determination was it was definitely in the sleeper shark family ...

The Greenland shark’s genome Greenland sharks grow at an extremely slow rate of less than 1 centimeter (0.4 inch) a year but eventually can reach more than 6 meters (about 20 feet) in length ...

The Greenland shark has by far the longest lifespan for a vertebrate, with an estimated life span of around 400 years. Scientists recently synthesized its genome to investigate what exactly ...

How to catch an enormous Greenland shark. In 2021, Arne Sahm decided to hunt for clues behind the sharks’ long life; not just to learn about the shark, but also to potentially compare them to ...

What's True. The shark featured in the image is indeed a Greenland shark, a long-lived Arctic species that was the subject of a 2016 study. Throughout their research, scientists at the University ...

This was the first time a Greenland shark was reported in the western Caribbean, researchers said. This species of shark is typically found in the Arctic and thousands of feet below the ocean surface.

The Greenland shark’s genome Greenland sharks grow at an extremely slow rate of less than 1 centimeter (0.4 inch) a year but eventually can reach more than 6 meters (about 20 feet) in length ...