The Greenland shark is a large, very long-lived cartilaginous fish that lives in the cold, deep water of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

The Greenland shark lives in the waters around Greenland, Iceland, and Canada but has also been found swimming in France’s Seine River and off the...

Though a Greenland shark can be the oldest being in any ocean, it belongs to the order Squaliformes, which is an old but not the oldest order of sh...

Scientists aren’t really sure, but they believe the shark’s extreme longevity is because it has a very low metabolism. This helps them live in cold...

The gurry shark is toxic because its tissues contain a chemical called trimethylamine N-oxide. This is a type of natural antifreeze that helps the...

Greenland sharks don’t appear to be dangerous to human beings, despite their great size. There may have been a report of an attack many years ago,...

Usually, Greenland sharks live off the coasts of Greenland, Canada and Iceland.