This Shark Was Alive When the Mayflower Landed! 🦈⏳

Added: 2026-04-29

[00:00:00]This shark was alive when the Mayflower landed. Deep beneath the [music] icy waters of the Arctic lives the Greenland shark, a creature that can survive for over 400 years. This means there are sharks swimming today that were born before [music] the Great Fire of London and the American Revolution. These ancient giants grow only 1 cm per year [music] and don't even reach maturity until they are 150 years old. Their secret? [music] An incredibly slow metabolism and the near freezing water that keeps their bodies in a state of slow motion.

[00:00:27]Scientists recently [music] found one individual estimated to be 512 years old, meaning it could have been alive when Leonardo da Vinci was painting the Mona Lisa. While empires rise and fall above the surface, these silent [music] ghosts of the deep just keep swimming.

[00:00:41]If you could live for 500 years, what part of history would you want to witness?