There are sharks alive today who were around when Isaac Newton was sitting under the apple tree, and it's all thanks to their ...

A baited camera captured a sleeper shark in the Southern Ocean for the first time. Sharks have survived mass extinctions, ...

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles.

The Greenland shark, known formally as Somniosus microcephalus, holds a distinction no other vertebrate can claim: it can live for centuries. These slow-moving predators glide through frigid Arctic ...

Greenland sharks can live for hundreds of years, drifting through some of the coldest and darkest waters on Earth. Once dismissed as slow, clumsy and nearly blind, these deep-sea giants are now ...

Marine scientists have identified a sleeper shark gliding through Antarctic waters, a sighting that is reshaping understanding of how some of the ocean’s most elusive predators endure Earth’s harshest ...

Previous research has suggested that Greenland sharks had impaired vision, so Fogg wasn’t expecting to discover anything ...

In January 2025, a deep-sea camera captured a sleeper shark cruising 490 meters below the surface in Antarctic waters — the first shark ever recorded this far south. The 10-to-13-foot shark was moving ...