Some sharks swimming in the Arctic right now were alive before the Industrial Revolution

In 2016, researchers radiocarbon-dated the eye lenses of Greenland sharks, which stop changing chemically after formation, and estimated the largest individual at around 392 years old, with a minimum age of 272. That makes the slow-growing, slow-swimming Greenland shark the longest-lived vertebrate known to science.

— Julius Nielsen et al., Eye Lens Radiocarbon Reveals Centuries of Longevity in the Greenland Shark — Science, 2016

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