Almost as old as Brazil: 518-year-old Greenland shark spotted in the Caribbean

Recently, while undertaking a quest to map the movements of a population of tiger sharks, a group of marine biologists came across a Greenland shark.

What left the international scientific community perplexed by this finding was the place where it was made, on the outskirts of Belize, a Caribbean country located on the east coast of Central America.

As if that weren't enough, when examining the animal, experts were able to point out that it was probably born around 1505. In other words, this giant in question had an incredible 518 health.

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What was the animal doing so far from its habitat?

Biologist and professor Julius Nielsen, from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of the greatest exponents in the world when it comes to studying the life of the Greenland shark.

It was precisely this specialist's research that indicated the incredible

However, in all the studies carried out, authorities on the subject were unanimous in pointing out one fact: all specimens of Greenland sharks come from the Arctic and its surrounding seas.

For this reason, the biologists who found the 518-year-old specimen cannot say for sure what it was doing in the Caribbean, which is millions of kilometers south of where it should be.

In fact, there is a concern that this specific animal and others of its species that may be in the area will come to suffer from the changes in temperature and environment that exist between their place of origin and the warmest waters in America Central.

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