Voting has now closed for week two of Animal Battle. The Greenland shark clinched the victory by fewer than a dozen votes. Week three pits an extremely phallic claim against a cancer-defying ...

WASHINGTON - In the cold waters of the Arctic, a denizen of the deep lurked for centuries. Now, scientists calculate that this female Greenland shark was the Earth's oldest living animal with a ...

Scientists are confident the shark would have been at least 272 years old when it died, so it still would be the longest-living animal with a backbone, Nielsen said. Other experts agreed.

The study showed that shark surface area scales with volume raised to the power of 0.64, just 3 percent off the theoretical 0.67, underscoring a fundamental biological blueprint shaped by ...

This was the first time a Greenland shark was reported in the western Caribbean, researchers said. This species of shark is typically found in the Arctic and thousands of feet below the ocean surface.

The Greenland shark has by far the longest lifespan for a vertebrate, with an estimated life span of around 400 years. Scientists recently synthesized its genome to investigate what exactly ...

But it is especially worrisome for an animal who doesn’t sexually mature until they are 150 years old. The Greenland shark fishery has been of great importance in Greenland until 1966, ...

In a discovery that has stunned the scientific world, researchers have found that the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), a mysterious creature from the deep, can live for over 300 years.

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.

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.

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.