Greenland sharks can live for hundreds of years, drifting through some of the coldest and darkest waters on Earth. Once dismissed as slow, clumsy and nearly blind, these deep-sea giants are now ...

Scientists have discovered the Greenland shark, a creature living in frigid Arctic waters. This shark is now recognized as the longest-living vertebrate on Earth. Some individuals may have been alive ...

A Greenland shark swimming through the North Atlantic today may have been alive before the modern world existed. Researchers have confirmed that some of these sharks were born in the 1600s, making ...

The Greenland shark, known formally as Somniosus microcephalus, holds a distinction no other vertebrate can claim: it can live for centuries. These slow-moving predators glide through frigid Arctic ...

The boat turned out to be a 35-foot-long fin-back whale, freshly dead, leaking fluids for hundreds of yards. This slick had ...