Somewhere in the cold, dark water off Greenland swims an animal that may have been alive when Isaac Newton was working out ...

The Greenland shark is the world’s longest living vertebrate. It can live for 400 years— twice the age of the longest-living land animal, the giant tortoise. There could be an individual in the ocean ...

Greenland sharks, the slow-moving predators of the deep Arctic, can live for at least 272 years and possibly close to four centuries, according to radiocarbon dating of eye-lens proteins from 28 ...

A Greenland shark stranded in Ireland was more than 150 years old but may have only just reached reproductive age. Its eyes, DNA-repair systems and scarred 34-kilogram heart offer clues to how the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A striking wildlife video captured by expedition leader and wildlife photographer Jonas Beyer showcases a herd of musk oxen ...

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 ...

A dead Greenland shark on an Irish shore may be 150 years old and still immature, in a species that can live 400 years.

Washington, DC—Naalakkersuisut (Greenland’s government) must immediately cancel narwhal hunting quotas for Southeast Greenland or risk losing three populations of these whales forever, according to a ...