A study of the hearts of Greenland sharks has found that the long-lived deep-sea predator has massive accumulations of ageing ...

A Greenland shark swimming through the North Atlantic today may have been alive before the modern world existed. Researchers ...

“You see it move its eye,” says Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, an associate professor at UC Irvine. “The shark is tracking the ...

Greenland sharks maintain sharp vision for centuries, revealing powerful DNA repair and eye-protection strategies that may inspire future approaches to lifelong human eyesight.

Described by one researcher as looking ‘already dead’, the enigmatic creatures are one of the least understood species on the planet ...

The very, very long-lived Greenland sharks were long thought to be practically blind. But a new study finds that they not only can see but also maintain their vision into old age ...

A new study finds Greenland sharks retain functional vision for over 100 years, challenging the belief that the world’s longest-living vertebrate is nearly blind.

The Greenland shark is one of the most mysterious animals in the ocean. Living in cold, deep waters of the Arctic and North ...

The longest living vertebrate on Earth may have a thing or two to teach us about maintaining our eyesight into old age. New ...

A new analysis of the eyes of some of the longest-lived animals on Earth could provide molecular clues about long-lasting ...