The shark featured in the image is indeed a Greenland shark, a long-lived Arctic species that was the subject of a 2016 study ...

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.

Researchers at NOAA Fisheries created a “one-stop shop" for information critical to conserving the Pacific sleeper shark.

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Pacific sleeper sharks can grow to lengths of up to 23 feet, and are extremely slow-moving deep-sea dwellers. They can live ...

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For example, the evidence suggesting that Pacific sleeper sharks have slow growth, delayed maturity, and long lifespans could ...

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 ...

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 ...