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The Greenland shark is the longest-living vertebrate. In 2016, radiocarbon dating aged one female at ~400 years; the species may reach 272–512. The secret is a metabolism crawling in the cold, deep Arctic. It takes ~150 years to mature — so one maturing today was born in the 1600s.
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