The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) grows up to 7 m in length and is thereby one of the largest fish in the world. It is distributed from the northern part of the east of USA, in Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian waters all the way to northern Russia (Campagno 1984). In spi...
natural history are threats to the future of the Greenland sharkSomniosus microcephalus– thought by some to be the longest-lived vertebrate on earth. Effective conservation and management of any fish species requires a thorough understanding of growth rates, age at first reproduction, fecundity, dis...
"It's an estimate. It’s not a determination, “Nielsen said. "It is the best we can do." Even at the lowest age, the shark would have been 272 years old when it died and still would be the longest-living animal with a backbone, Nielsen said. ...
including in subarctic marine mammal liver (e.g., fin whale, sperm whale, minke whale in South China Sea; Guo et al., 2023), in other Arctic biota (fishes and mussel; Evenset et al., 2009), and in Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) liver from the Greenland Sea (Ademollo et...