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A Greenland shark is seen swimming beneath the ice near northern Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. - Avalon.red/Alamy Stock Photo ... The large sharks also live to be more than 400 years old ...
The Greenland shark is one of the largest known extant species of shark, with adults growing to around 400 to 500 cm. [10] The largest confirmed specimen measured up to 6.4 metres (21 ft) long and weighed around 1,023 kilograms (2,255 lb).
The Greenland shark takes 150 years to reach sexual maturity, with some sharks living up to 400 years. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Due to this, hunting of the Greenland shark is unsustainable and is slowly leading to the potential extinction of the species.
The Greenland shark had been estimated to live to about 200 years, but a study published in 2016 found that a 5.02 m (16.5 ft) specimen was between 272 and 512 years old. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] That makes the Greenland shark the longest-lived vertebrate.
Greenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrates in the world, according to NOAA. They can live “at least 250 years” but might reach “over 500 years” in age. Most of the shark’s long ...
As a passenger in one, biologist Nigel Hussey witnessed something he'd never seen before, a Greenland shark feeding in its own habitat. The sharks can live for over 400 years, the longest of any ...
Olm (Proteus anguinus) – 102 years; Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) – 138 years; Red sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) – 200 years; Rougheye rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus) – 205 years; Ocean quahog clam (Arctica islandica) – 507 years; Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) - 250 to 500 years
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