Hi johnpe 1,
We know Capitalism works! It is the looters in
the government that doesn't work.

Good Evening Herb7734,
There are pluses and minuses for living a long life.
As you age you gain wisdom but also more
ailments. Living in the cool ocean near Greenland
must be good for the joints.

Good evening Riftsrunner, thanks for your informative comments. The dating of artifacts or fossils or sea creatures are all estimates. I believe
The scientists used the best testing to determine
Age currently available, the article discusses the technique used .

I think Hillary may be getting Greenland shark injections..

We find life in the higher atmosphere and at the deepest of our drillings into the Earth. Many of us separate, in our thinking, of the Earth as one thing and of life as something else and, more--us as separate from both. Life is an intricately woven tapestry of multitudinous units, each existing within it's own time frame and much like the brief flare of an ignited match, compared to the time frame of the Solar System, much less that of the Universe--some with moments, or days, or years, or centuries, and a couple with millennia, but all effecting each other.

So, did they extract her eyeball for the carbon dating? Where are the shark PETA people?!?!

fascinating! . we keep learning about nature, and maybe --
just maybe -- we might learn that Capitalism Works! -- j
.

I wonder if she gets arthritis?
Good thing she lives in the water.
I'll bet she is slowing down in trying to run down her food.
Probably has learned to wait in ambush.
Of course, it would be a shark. Why couldn't it be a nice cuddly cute Koala bear?

While I like the idea of a shark living to be about 400 years old, I take radiometric dating of carbon-14 from ocean animals with a grain of salt. I say this because there have been some major dating anomalies associated with carbon-14 in ocean life that creationists jump on to show that radiometric dating is unreliable. This is because Nitrogen-14 in the atmosphere is constantly being bombarded by cosmic rays and is converted into Carbon-14 and animals incorporate this Carbon at a relatively constant level. However, ocean animals that eat animals and plants from the depths of the oceans frequently have a lower Carbon-14 content due to the Carbon-14 poor regions in the deep depths. So dating them can produce a false aging due to the lower content than would normally be found in animals closer to the surface. Greenland sharks have never been seen hunting live prey and are considered scavengers feeding in the depths, so it is possible they may be a long lived species or they could have a diet that consists of Carbon-14 poor prey.

Thanks Thoritsu, Klingon or an ancestor of the Bushes.

Thanks for your comment Blanco .With many animals there is a small bone in the ear that has rings like a tree for est. age. The shark doesn't have the bone so this technique is used.
Good day!

Thanks, as I wondered how longevity is determined in animals.

I heard about this. Interesting stuff.

Rene Descartes! The mathematician and philosopher that loved to go to war! Must've been a French Klingon.

All those many, many,many years you swim and eat, swim and eat, swim and eat, after 150 years you get some fishy sex but it is still mostly swim and eat, swim and eat, swim and eat, and if you're female you make babies however a Greenland shark does it but that hardly breaks the monotony because it is almost always swim and eat, swim and eat, swim and eat and how the heck you never got ate up by a pod of killer whales for all of 400 years you'll never know as you swim and eat, swim and eat, swim and eat . . . yawn . . .

Good evening Zenphamy, so true as we know little of what goes on underwater. I have heard we have only explored 7% or so of the oceans and their depths. Much to discover. One observation is that we seem to under estimate life and it's amazing resiliency from what it can survive, to how long it can live and what abilities it utilizes.

And knew nothing of what went on above her.

Carbon 14 dating of the layers of protein in the eye lens reveals longevity. This doubles the previous estimate of how long this 5 meter shark lives.