The Greenland shark lives in one of the most extreme environments ... energy when scavenging for food - perhaps a drowned Polar bear or dead whale. But don’t be fooled, this shark is also ...

In East Greenland, more and more polar bears are being killed in self-defense as the loss of their sea ice habitat pushes towards communities, where the predators pose a real threat to humans. In ...

Last week, a polar bear attacked a German researcher in East Greenland. The researcher, part of a team on Traill Island, encountered the bear on Friday morning. According to Greenland police ...

Measuring the Greenland shark’s growth rate is challenging because individuals are rarely recaptured. However, one shark tagged in 1936 had only grown 2.3 inches when it reappeared 16 years later.

The purpose of the mission was to understand more about the Greenland shark, a top predator in the Arctic, which lives for more than 272 years, and possibly even more than 400. Scientists know that it ...

A Greenland shark alive today could have been swimming ... feeding on animal carcasses such as those of polar bears or reindeer that fall through the ice. Their preference for scavenging means ...