A detailed overview of the Greenland shark, highlighting its extraordinary longevity, with individuals living up to 500 years, making it the longest-lived vertebrate known. It describes the shark’s physical traits, habitat, and slow-moving lifestyle, often likened to a “sloth of the sea.”
The passage also explains the shark’s unique reproductive biology, including its very late sexual maturity and long gestation period. Additionally, it notes that the Greenland shark is a vulnerable species, threatened by fishing and accidental bycatch, and concludes by mentioning that its flesh contains toxic compounds that make it unsafe for direct consumption.
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