Trilobites: Meet the Greenland Shark. It Could Be the Longest-Living Vertebrate.

Friday, August 12, 2016 - 13:21 in Biology & Nature

Researchers used radiocarbon dating of the eye lenses of these lazy-looking predators to estimate that they have a life expectancy of at least 272 years.

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