The Greenland shark, which can have a lifespan of over 500 years, was discovered on the shores of Finisklin on Saturday.

A creature born before Isaac Newton, older than the United States, and still alive today – meet the world’s longest-living vertebrate. Every so often, the internet latches onto an ...

It’s the tale of the old man-eater and the sea. Beachcombers in Ireland were taken aback after stumbling across the carcass ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of evolution’s most haunting survivors. Long before forests reshaped Earth’s ...

The Greenland shark can live for centuries in near darkness, and for a long time scientists assumed its vision must be poor ...

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 ...