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 ...

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.

It turned out to be a Greenland shark, which is typically found in the Arctic and can live to be over 500 years old. The team of scientists thought the shark was dead when they finally hauled it ...

Along an icy coast of Greenland, locals spotted the body of a rarely seen deep-sea creature. Wildlife officials identified the stranded animal as a 100-year-old shark.

This makes the nearly 400-year-old shark the oldest known backboned animal, researchers say. Greenland sharks live for hundreds of years. Photo credit: Julius Nielsen.

A new study suggests the Greenland shark can live up to 400 years old. If that's true, it would be the longest-living vertebrate in the world. News. Home Page ; California; Election 2024; ...

Even at the lowest end of the margin of error, the shark would have been 272 years old when it died, and still would be the longest-living animal with a backbone, Nielsen said. Other experts agreed.

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 ...

Scientists worked out a method for determining the age of Greenland sharks and discovered one that is nearly four centuries old. A 400-year-old shark isn't too insane once you realize the ocean ...

Still, when it comes to longevity, even the oldest Greenland shark has nothing on Monorhaphis chuni — a study in the journal Aging Research Reviews estimated the sea sponge to be around 11,000 ...

Along an icy coast of Greenland, locals spotted the body of a rarely seen deep-sea creature. Wildlife officials identified the stranded animal as a 100-year-old shark.