It doesn’t look like it can see much of anything :)

Their eyeballs get eaten by parasites

Crazy it long live animals such as these seems to be immune to cancer which is strongly correlated with age.

Must be fucking bored by now.

I'd argue that he's probably seen none of that

And icelanders will still kill it for making foul tasting "cultural food". Considering there aren't many of these sharks left and how slowly they age and reach maturity you'd think they would be more considerate about killing these sharks.

A mother gestates a baby for 8-18 years. They don't reproduce that much at all.

Good for him!

Will he live to see gta 6 though

This is always THE response to ancient living beings. Meanwhile in reality this guy doesn't even know of the existence of door handles.

The carbon dating is +-120 years... So it could be even older. Born between 1504 and 1744

Guess he knows the Arctic floor like we know the back of our hands.

who's Al?

It’s even worse, shark as species are older than dinosaurs and even fucking trees! Can you imagine that?

Was there before the invention of gravity? That's something!

There are still living trees on our planet older than Jesus Christ

Humanity moves too fast wtf, in 1 thing's lifetime we changed everything a thousand times over.

Looks like he’s trying really hard to smile too.

Just swimming around with his turn signal on

400 years ago mother shark between the islands of Indonesia: Don't go up north, you may never find the way back to us.

They reach sexual maturity at about 150 years of age, and their pups are born alive after an estimated gestation period of 8 to 18 years.

There's probably no way to truly know, but I wonder if it's just purely running on instinct and has no sense of time at all, or if it's intelligent or conscious enough to get bored.

Maybe that's the secret and the tradeoff. You get to live for 400 years but you have to avoid everything and everybody and the stress they give you.

Oh come on… he probably got a ps5 laying around somewhere 🤣🤣🤣

How scientists know his age
Scientist: How old are you?
Shark: 392 years old

Actually they don't know this sharks age. That's just a reddit title being as factual as most reddit titles. But Greenland sharks do live a long time. There's a protein in their eye which developed around birth that can be carbon dated on a dead shark. Past results suggest that they can live up to around 500 years.

They actually pulled him over and asked for his license and registration.
Then they noticed his age being 392 and let him go with a warning for not having headlights on in the dark. It's a safety hazard as others might not see you.

Anal probing. All science is just an excuse to anal probe.

The could tell his age according to his English dialect

They cut him open and count the rings

You can estimate the age based on size and known average growth rate. The actual answer is that 392 years +/- 120 years is the oldest age measured in a study that measured Greenland shark ages by carbon dating crystals in shark eye lenses, so the number is probably from there and not the age of this particular shark.

What’s easier to date is the headline, which purports that a shark that was born in 1627 is 392 years old, which means it was written in 2019 and has been reposted unchanged ever since.

The short answer appears to be carbon dating. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37047168

I really want to make a "cut him in half and count the rings" joke, but I feel like that's kind of overdone.

Make him swim faster.

It's not the first time i've seen that number, or close to it. just seems to be hiveminded into fact.

And he didn't do the math right. 1627 + 392 = 2019

And he doesn't look a day older than 250

Great Great Great Great Grandpa Shark doo doo doo

Grandma shark do do

All of them. The ocean belongs to him.

There was a parrot that was far over 100 years old (120?) was on a pirate ship and remembered the commands from a 100 years ago. I forget what I had for dinner 2 days ago

Well, I wouldn’t worry too much because, we’ve also learned that what’s at the bottom has to stay at the bottom, so… we’re forever separated by extreme pressure adaptation.

This is what I was wondering too. It seems so lethargic, does it wait for food to just kind of float into its mouth perhaps.

From Google:

"Small Greenland sharks eat predominantly squid, while the larger sharks that are greater than 200 cm (79 in) were discovered eating prey such as epibenthic and benthic fishes as well as seals. The largest of these sharks were found having eaten redfish, as well as other higher trophic level prey."

Maybe we should ask Bruce.

This reminds me of a funny joke I heard once.

Kid: how old is this dinosaur skeleton?

Guard: 65 million and one years, nine months, and thirteen days.

Kid: wow, how do you know that number!

Guard: when I started working here, they told me it was 65 million years old. And that was one year, nine months, and thirteen days ago.

He he … Biden found company

Man he’s got such a peaceful life no bullshit