Scientists discover Greenland sharks can survive for centuries with functioning eyesight, overturning the long-held belief that they are blind |
[ad_1] Greenland sharks entered popular science writing on the strength of one number, 400 years. Some individuals swimming in the North Atlantic today were alive during Isaac Newton’s lifetime, born centuries before anyone thought to ask how old a shark could get. That figure alone would be enough to make the species a fixture of…