The longevity of the Greenland shark

While other vertebrates, such as the rougheye rockfish and the bowhead whale, can reach an impressive age of around 200 years, the Greenland shark is by far the longest-lived vertebrate with some estimates as high as 512 years.

This is a Greenland shark – a species that can live to be at least 250 years old. That means around the time the oldest confirmed shark was born, the world was a very different place to what it is now.