The long-living sharks aren't as blind as once thought and have DNA repair mechanisms that may help prevent their vision from ...

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

Lifespan diversity across the animal kingdom reveals extraordinary adaptations to survival, reproduction, and environmental change. While humans consider an average life expectancy of around 70 to 80 ...

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 new study finds Greenland sharks retain functional vision for over 100 years, challenging the belief that the world’s longest-living vertebrate is nearly blind.

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