11/13/2025
A 400-year-old shark... still swimming since the 1600s. 🦈❄️
Deep in the icy depths of the North Atlantic, scientists have discovered a female Greenland shark estimated to be nearly four centuries old — the longest-living vertebrate ever recorded.
Using radiocarbon dating on her eye lenses, researchers believe she was born around 1620 — long before electricity, airplanes, or even the invention of the light bulb.
These ancient sharks live quiet, unhurried lives in freezing waters, growing barely a centimeter each year. Their slow metabolism and cold environment may be the secrets behind their astonishing lifespan — allowing them to glide through time itself.
Just imagine... this shark has silently witnessed the rise of modern science, the birth of flight, the age of space travel, and the dawn of the digital world — all from the stillness of the deep sea.
A powerful reminder that nature’s clock runs far slower — and deeper — than ours.
If she could tell her story… what would you ask a 400-year-old shark? 🌊
