Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maintaining perfect vision for 400 years is a biological achievement for the Greenland shark. Operating at 9,500 feet creates high ...

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 ...

Previous research has suggested that Greenland sharks had impaired vision, so Fogg wasn’t expecting to discover anything ...

Close up image of a greenland shark taken at the floe edge of the Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut. Can living organisms truly maintain themselves, down to their most delicate tissues, for centuries? This ...

Scientists estimate that Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) may live for 500 years, and have dated one living example to 392 years old-old enough to have followed pilgrims making their way ...