The Greenland Shark Is the One Hunter Orcas Will Not Test

#GreenlandShark #ArcticOcean #LongestLivingAnimal In the black water under the Arctic ice, a shark swims past that was alive before your country existed. It grows longer than a school bus. It moves slower than you walk to class. And somehow, it still hunts and kills. You are about to meet a creature poison enough to turn predators away, old enough to remember empires that no longer exist, and strange enough that scientists are still arguing over how it survives. We will drop past the reach of sunlight into crushing cold water, follow a killer whale pod that pulls back from an easy meal, and open the stomach of a shark that swallowed a polar bear whole. If ancient, deadly mysteries like this pull you in, hit subscribe and stay close. Take a breath. We are going under the ice. Sources: Nielsen et al., Science, "Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark," https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s..., Live Science, "Greenland sharks: Toxic, half-blind giants of the ocean," https://www.livescience.com/greenland..., ScienceDaily, "Longest-lived vertebrate is Greenland shark," https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases... , bioRxiv, "The Greenland shark genome provides insights into extreme longevity," https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11... #shark #arctic #ocean #wildlife #nature #biology #animals #science