The Slow, Old Greenland Shark!

If you're feeling old and slow today, the Greenland Shark has you beat! In addition to being the largest Arctic fish and one of the slowest swimming sharks, they are THE LONGEST LIVING VERTEBRATE and can live for hundreds of years!! PhD student Eric Ste-Marie from the University of Windsor's Hussey Lab studies the behavior and physiology of these sharks in the Canadian Arctic and is our guest. More shark episodes: Cookiecutter Shark (S4:E49)Blacktip Reef Shark (S4:E30)Pacific Sleeper Shark (S4:E23)Goblin Shark (S2:E42)Salmon Shark (S1:E29)

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