Some consider the resulting meat — known as Hákarl by Greenlanders — a delicacy. “Apparently it tastes like a very ripe ...

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 Greenland shark has by far the longest lifespan for a vertebrate, with an estimated life span of around 400 years.

A boat skipper said he was "dumbfounded" to find a possibly centuries-old Greenland shark in waters off Cornwall. Trev Worth was out training with his crew member Kingsley when they spotted the ...

The Greenland shark lives in one of the most extreme environments. Temperatures frequently fall below zero, yet this shark thrives. It’s predicted that this shark could live to 200 years old ...

A rare species of shark stranded in Cornwall was a 3.96m (13ft) long juvenile that could have been more than 100 years old, a post-mortem examination has revealed. The Greenland shark is believed ...

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 ...

One such remarkable creature is the Greenland shark, whose lifespan can extend up to 500 years. The quest to understand the ...

An international team of scientists, including a physiologist from The University of Manchester, will head to the largest island in the world later this month to investigate the Greenland shark – ...

Ju Shardlow: Look up the list of the most misunderstood foods in the world, and fermented shark is probably on it. But here in the west of Iceland, it is a regional delicacy. It's Greenland shark ...

Some animals can live to a startlingly old age, from the famous 392-year-old “Greenland shark” to a 190-year-old tortoise in the Seychelles. Two science studies published recently brings us closer to ...