New research shows how the Greenland shark’s heart keeps working for centuries by tolerating aging rather than avoiding it.

Greenland sharks—the longest-living vertebrates in the world—dwell in the deep, frigid waters of the Arctic and North ...

Greenland sharks are a biological anomaly. The animals can grow to more than 20 feet long, weigh more than a ton and can live ...

“You see it move its eye,” says Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, an associate professor at UC Irvine. “The shark is tracking the ...

How many animals on Earth can claim to have been around when Beethoven was writing his symphonies? The answer may blow your mind the Greenland shark. These deep sea fish are the ultimate time ...

Read how ancient Greenland sharks' bodies preserve their eyesight for hundreds of years and what this means for older humans.

Learn how extreme longevity and deep-sea adaptations allow Greenland sharks to preserve vision for centuries.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Humans, under optimal conditions, can live to an age of 100 ...

A study of the hearts of Greenland sharks has found that the long-lived deep-sea predator has massive accumulations of ageing ...

Construction on the nation’s largest wildlife overpass is now complete. The structure stretches across Interstate 25 in Douglas County between Larkspur and Monument. Although designed for elk and ...