400-year-old shark...

Greenland sharks were announced longest vertebrates on the planet. Scientists use the technique of determining the radiocarbon age 28 and found that the animals a kind of female shark was almost 400 years.



The team also discovered that sharks increased by 1 centimeter per year and reach sexual maturity at the age of 150 years.

Director of research, marine biologist Julius Nilsen of the University of Copenhagen, said that they knew that had to do with an unusual pet, but all were surprised when they found large sharks age.

Record holder for longevity with great until recently was a 211-year-old whale.

Greenland sharks are huge animals and can reach up to 5 meters length. They swim slowly in the cold waters of the North Atlantic and thought that their low rate is one of the factors that makes live longer.


Since radikoarboni not give an exact date of seniority, but low margin and high female shark is thought that 272 to 512 years. Options are to be somewhere between these figures, ie about 400 years. This means that this shark was born between 1501 and 1744.