Greenland Shark: The Shark That’s Twice As Old As America
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2023
- These sharks are older than Shakespeare.
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Animalogic Created by Dylan Dubeau and Andrew Strapp
Executive Producer, Director, and Director of Photography: Dylan Dubeau
Host: Danielle Dufault
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Examining the nature of the beast.
he is not a toy.
he is not a Christmas present.
he is a 400-year commitment.
We can just eat him, if we had enough
You will have to surpass your limits or invent immortality to make sure you can look after your slow swimming shark companion.
I actually do wonder what it would taste like though. Probably Chicken.
@@Felix-Sited It soaks in salt water for hundreds of years, eats primarily only seafood and then has to be fermented to rid it of toxins...tastes foul, but not like fowl.
@@imascrew6218Apparently they taste like essence of piss.
they literally PERFECTED the art of ''nah bro im just chilling''
I didn't know that was an art.....who do I talk to about getting paid? either way sounds like too much work, Ill just put it out there to the universe that I need to get paid for my art of chilling
Masters at playing the long game literally.
Real Shit😂
Nah bro that guy is my cousin
Ye but the r capable of bursts of speeds when hunting or fighting over food
sexual maturity at 150 years old? holy moly, just knowing this shark is 500 years old is absolutely insane and fascinating.
to be pregnant for 18 years is crazy to think about.
The closest thing Earth has to Yoda's species
@@calecurphey6135yes lol
You don't wanna shag when you're 150? Hahaha
It's kind of horrifying especially if you have a difficult pregnancy
@@Angelface11 morning sickness for 5 years
A movie franchise featuring this shark would go on for generations.
@@dolemites_chain ...and in the next scene, the greenland shark swam slowly through the dark ocean depths. this was followed by the greenland shark swimming slowly through the dark ocean depths, then eating something. after that, the greenland shark swam slowly through the dark ocean depths.
A shark sitcom
Don’t give the fast and the furious franchise any ideas!
If they got any young ones... they would have to worry about a fair number of small caveats though. Waiting around 1 & a half centuries before they could bring up its sexuality and such in the programming for example.
Imagine the amount of sequels, prequels... requels!
As a 800 year old guy, I can confirm that this shark is indeed 500 years old as he used to be my pet but had to release him into the Arctic Ocean round 1500s
As your mother, I can confirm that I made you release the shark because I was fed up of cleaning the fish tank for years on end
lol
ya like how would anyone know that this shark is 500 years old unless they too lived that long. Did they ask the shark it's birthday?❤
An
@@mariateresacatalaaznar116how old are you?
Out of all sharks, the Greenland shark is the one that looks the most like a submarine.
Form follow function, both need fuel efficient form for long cruise
@@leobuana7430 True!
@@maggiepie8810what the hell is your point of that dumb comment 😭
@@Danny_10k It was a joke based on many pictures you see of them.
This is important information
imagine surviving +300 years and then this random bloke that is 10 times younger than you just hooks you up and chops into pieceses.
skill issue
Or get caught n stupid commercial fishermen net
Anopheles Mosquitoes that cause most human deaths in history live for 15 days max and 10 on average.
This is the most friend-shaped shark I've ever seen, and I've a pretty poignant fear of sharks.
Look up whalesharks. Even friendlier because no sharp teeth. Ultra slow too.
@@paddorshark pog is the chilliest of them. This guy still hunts and eats medium size preys
Most sharks are not hostile the tiger shark and great white sre only hostile if they smell blood and have ambush tendencies but divers can swim with both
@@Gam18If all of the people who were eaten by any type of shark could speak, I'm sure they'd beg to differ.😅 Just curious, would you swim with a shark? Any kind of shark?
Friend shaped shark 😊
imagine being a shark and a polar bear shows up out of nowhere...
"hmmm a different food today? what a delicacy!" 😂
If it could catch the bear, haha! A polar bear can generate wake at 10 km per hour.
I figured it's a young polar bear that drowned or died in the ocean
Polar bears are marine mammals. They spend more of their life in the water than they do on land.
we must protect this creature, at ALL COSTS!!!
Why, do they taste good?
why you yelling...ALL ALL COSTS!!! You should chill like the shark.
There is no danger of it going extinct.
@@YD-uq5fi and?
@@YD-uq5fino shit but this shark has lived through it all and it wouldn’t definitely be worth it to have the longest living life possible
These guys are so fascinating! 500 years old! 150 years to mature! Will be pregnant for 18 years! That's nuts!!!
Most animals that lives 2500 m bellow the ocean are creepy, yet fascinating.
@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kkshut up
It’s what happens when a species can’t see what they look like.
@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk Most of the stuff down there looks creepy af, what do you mean lol you seen the angler fish?
@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk I'm 31...
Finally, a pet i can gift to my elvish friend
But how are they going to swim in the Woods?
@@disrespectthemwomensubjuga5471 exactly
@@disrespectthemwomensubjuga547110 million gallon aquarium of course
They can live almost 500 years, many of them are completely blind thanks to those parasites, but they get along just fine, and many marine biologists think one or more could actually becthe Lochness Monster. These sharks don't need to be top predators to be absolutely awesome.
The parasite isn't so bad for them because it acts as a glow-in-the-dark lure, plus sharks can use not only their sense of smell but also detect electricity given off by other animals.
The Loch Ness Monster isn't real and it sure isn't a Greenland shark (the loch is freshwater).
@@andyfriederichsen you can get to the loch from the ocean.
@@waragh It's still freshwater and Greenland sharks can't live in freshwater.
they have lots of wisdom
Lonesome George: Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!
I made myself sad
Live old, die ancient.
That shall be my motto.
Don't mate until you are a 150 :P
Live slow*
Live slow. You screwed up your own motto. Congrats
More supercentenarian women than men
Living relics are always so cool. Sharks, trees, tortoises etc I would like to see them someday. They really put our entire lives into perspective.
I’ve got some great news for you about trees 😂
I’m now disturbed and curious about the parasite blindness issue
It's generally so dark the deep, and they stay under for so long, that they probably don't even realize they've gone blind until they tread closer to the surface.
As much as I like sharks, I’ve never read much about Greenland Sharks. And I didn’t think there was any animal that lived longer than sea turtles and tortoises. And now that I think about it, the eerie appearance of Greenland Sharks, their long-life spans, sluggishness and their freezing abyssal environments kind of makes them seem zombies or Wights from Game of Thrones.
you've never heard of "the immortal" jellyfish that doesn't die at all. Well, if its lucky and doesn't get eaten or something else, doesn't die.
@@ravinraven6913 emiga that you will reincarnate into one of those jelly fishes in your next life
They r kinda like zombie. They have very low metabolism and dun hunt like most sharks.
@@ravinraven6913 if that's an actual thing the fact that humans haven't tried to make an immortality drug out of them is surprising.
@@ravinraven6913While the immortal jellyfish, like lobsters, could hypothetically be immortal they are unlikely to survive to the same age as the oldest Greenland Shark. Most succumb to predation or disease.
Sea life, like insects, are very strange both biologically and morphologically.
Beautiful illustration, it's perfect. I love how they look weathered AF, as any ancient creature should.
- This thing has literally seen every single war. 🦈
This is actually so sad and horrifying that people decide to catch and eat these beautiful sharks. They treat them like a normal fish that has been alive for a year or so. They deserve better and they deserve respect for their age, just like the respect we give to very old people.
So true. Why go through all that trouble and end a potentially 5 century old creature's life just for some horrible tasting meat.
I feel like respecting people simply because they're old is such a fallible concept, people that old should be grateful, they are tax sinks and distract a lot of medical progression.
They should be grateful that they're being looked after and respect the younger generations actually paying their bills
Hopefully, traditions must end and respect these wonderful creatures
I don’t think these sharks feel sadness for what they eat lol but I’m against eating something so old. It’s just destruction of history.
fr i feel like i couldnt even kill one for science let alone to eat :(
This animal is the strangest I have ever heard about in an evolutionary manner. Doesn't breed until 150 yrs old??, 18 yrs pregnant... My goodness. If everything followed this schedule, we would have NEVER evolved in the first place.
Time is realitive, to them it's probably no big deal.
@@coreyrowlandYea because they haven't probably had predators except humans. And now getting caught in fishing nets.
@@jokuvaan5175 most of them are super deep to the point they dont have to worry about it lmao.
His role seems not to evolve, but to stay the same for as long as possible.
Yet humans kill thousands is disgusting even tho there’s no point there meat is nasty still even when they put it through the process they take so long to have kids that be devastating to breed it’s pop back up if it’s numbers gets to low
The age, mating & pregnancy section... That's mind-blowing! And the fact that some could be so old, that I'd hit dead ends on most of my ancestors on ancestry lol
What a beautiful creature
This is my FAVORITE shark next to the Goblin shark (all my favorite animals of any species happen to be the weirdest ones, and I’m ok with that). There is just…no better way to give this shark a better video, and the only other time I saw a feature of it get done so well was back in Animal Planet’s The Most Xtreme.
A beautiful shark that’s truly deserving more recognition.
I wouldnt describe it as 'beautiful', its actually hideous and ghoulish, but a remarkable animal no doubt that would be wider recognised if it were not so difficult to find and film
@@ura9390 beautiful doesn’t just have to mean some sort of elegance or pretty definition. For me even the most horrid and terrifying animals could be beautiful to some of us.
@@frisbyart there is a beauty in ugliness
@@frisbyart "Truth is beauty, beauty is truth, that is all ye need know."
Since they’ve been found in the carribean, there is a slim possibility that a shark saw the may flower sailing the Gulf of Mexico.
Except the Mayflower went to Massachusetts, not the Gulf of Mexico. It could have seen Vasco de Gama and Ponce de Leon, though!
@@ritawilbur6128vasco de gama went to the Caribbean??
@@coucoubrandy1079 Vasco de Gama travelled to Goa in India to make trade with local Goans. But it’s Ponce de Leon who went to the Caribbean.
@@SlapstickGenius23 I know, that's why I put 2 ??
@@coucoubrandy1079 My bad! I meant Cabeza de Vaca. Getting my explorers mixed up....
Man kudos to the camera people diving in those cold dark waters has to be at least somewhat scary af
the sleeper sharks are my absolute favorite. they are such bizarre creatures, slow and docile seeming, but excellent predators. the largest individuals can share a diet similar to sperm whales, even giant and colossal squid.
one was recently spotted hanging out around an active volcano near belize for no apparent reason? they seem to enjoy cold water since most dive down deep during the day and surface at night, and they're blood is basically antifreeze, but this one was chilling in warm, acidic tropical water.
An 18 year pregnancy! Makes my nine months seem like a blink of an eye.
Even the most cold hearted shark is still a kickass interesting animal.
As I doctor and with a lot of biology behind me, I get it why these creatures live so long!
It's their metabolism! It's like the tortoise of the oceans!
But just to think that even an individual Greenland shark swimming in the depths right now, lived even before Columbus came to the New world is mind boggling!
👏👏👏 Animalogic.
And I loved the pun directed at humans about 'teenage pregnancies' 😂!
I was thinking maybe they live so long due to two possibilities. One the cold water could aid in them living longer by slowing down their heart rate. And two, they probably fast long periods of times which kills free radicals.
you means they life long because their metabolism is as slow as tortoise and sloth? 🤔
@@redemissarium Yes, metabolism ages you. People who eat little live longer.
@@MeidoInHebun Ok then, from now own Ill move and do everything and breath 4 time slower so I could live for 400 years 😁
Awesome video! they are one of my favourite animals. although, they are not the oldest animals. deep sea corals can live up to 4.000 years, while deep sea sponges can live 11.000 years
She said the longest living vertebrates. The animals you mentioned are not vertebrates.
@@SSingh150 my comment was referring to the line "this, is the oldest living animal on the planet" ❤
There's a kinda jellyfish that can live forever.
A 2018 study found the Monorhaphis sponge to be over 18,000 years old.
@@hoibsh21 yes, Turritopsis dohrnii :))
I’m a big fan of your illustrations, DD! They’re awesome!
Thank you for once again bringing to your audience another little know or heard of species of animal. It is as always, a very interesting video. Thank you.
Truth to be told, Icelanders don't eat all that much fermented shark. It's traditional, yes, it's consumed once or twice a year, yes. They are not masochist, though, and most of them find it disgusting. Of course there will be exceptions.
Today it's prepared mostly for tourists.
I still can't shake Anthony Bourdain ate this and hated it also. RIP Anthony Bourdain you were deeply loved
Goddamn tourists. I’m not anything close to a vegan or animal rights guy, but there’s something obscene about eating such an ancient animal. Should be outlawed, especially given how unsustainable it is given their birth rate.
Went to Iceland this past March and tried some , yes its a little chewy and taste is like eating ammonia , so me being me went for a second and third bite with thier Brennivín ( Black Death ) as chaser , like an akvavit drink 😆🤦🏻
@@dionlarsen10 did you have any un-usual after effects from eating this...
500 years, whoa
Great video! Would love to see an episode about another strange and often overlooked shark species, the megamouth shark!
Awesome! I remember first seeing footage of these sharks, they are so cool!
Loved the episode! Is so cool to see Danielle back!
a greenland shark born today will meet jean luc picard
Excellent video, Animalogic never lets us down!
I once worked on a shrimp trawler, the shield had broken and we hauled 2 of these, they were HUGE !!! But we managed to push them back into the sea.
I really enjoy listening to Danielle, she's a very knowledgeable presenter! She seems like a really nice person.
Humans be like: "What a toxic, disgusting meal.... I love it! Let's fish them to extinction! :D"
🥲
I fish a few, one or two a year.
Thanks for making this video, i made a request about Greenland sharks years ago.Cheers Animalogic !!!!!!!!!
Magnificent creature, I have always been intrigued by them! Thanks
People eat the strangest things. It's toxic, it tastes terrible, yet it's a delicacy.
How do we know how old they are? (Not trying to dispute it, just curious!)
the lens of the eye grows slowly, and we can actually carbon date this tissue since it doesn't have new carbon flowing into the center of it.
You kill the shark first then you date it. I wouldn't be surprised if they can get way older than 500 years. I'd be surprised if could even find one alive that somehow has managed to survive not only the dangers of the sea but even worse - us humans.
We assume a growth rate of 1 cm per year from an individuum that has been caught twice (in 1936 and 1952) which would make the largest ones 500 years or older. This fits with what the carbon dating of eye lenses has found for a 5 m long shark: 392 +/- 120 years.
@rianfelis3156 does that mean that they actually caught one, killed it just to date its eyes ? That's sounds weird to me. Especially if it's blind on top of that. But since I never heard about this shark before...
Count its rings, maybe?
Hi Danielle! I've missed seeing you on here!
Another great video, thanks once again.
Pete 🏴 xx
Whoops at 5:42 Danielle said 35,000! Thankfully the caption got it right lol. Awesome illustrations, you are living my dream life!
These sharks have an odd tendency to break off from divers that are filming them snd then reappear flanking the same divers. It suggests studying behavior. Curiosity is a natural predatory trait and would potentially suggest these animals are more active hunters than we've previously assumed. One thing is for certain, we don't know as much about them as we'd like.
I had never heard of a greenland shark. This is pretty much a perfect intro.
It is unbelievable how much I learn in your channel, thank you
One of my favorite Sharks
If you haven't yet, I'd love to see a vid on the 52 hertz whale
Aren't they also in the St. Lawrence river? I remember seeing on TV some divers investigating and being incredibly spooked by the sparks suddenly appearing touching distance from their faces, in the low visability water.
Love this channel. Please can you do the epaulette shark sometime? They look like cute catfish and they can walk!
This is one of those animals that gets weirder and weirder the more you learn about it.
Great video on the ancient ones. Please do one of catfish. They have more taste buds than any animal and hunt birds.
Pretty cool to watch the illustration taking shape!
Always enjoy Animal Logic, but this whole video sounds unbelievable!
Similar to this shark, lizards also generally breed by the male grabbing the female's shoulder in its jaws and using one of its hemipenes (it also has 2) for breeding.
Blue-tongue skinks are a classic example of this primordial approach.
Video just says they live for 500 years. But how did researchers figure out the age?
Normally, scientists find out the age of a shark by counting the vertebral growth ring on their skeletons, and it helps them estimate how long a species of shark can live for. However, that's difficult, pretty much impossible, to do with a Greenland because of how different their skeletal structure is compared to other sharks.
So, they used a method called bomb radiocarbon. Basically, animals born after the testing of nuclear weapons in the 50's and 60's will have a "bomb pulse" in their tissue.
The "pulse" was present within the eye lens of a Greenland, as the tissue doesn't change much.
By looking at their birth certificates
Carbon dating of crystals in the eyes, plus extrapolation from a growth rate of 1 cm/year which had been measured in a shark that had been caught twice.
Identity theft
Exactly
Crazy to know how many conflicts, wars, epidemics this shark has lived through and had no idea any of it was going on
I caught myself saying "wow" many times thru this video! Thanks!!!
Honestly, with their gestation periods and likely very sparse mating sessions, I'd imagine there are not enough greenland sharks being born and raised to support that rate of being caught in by-catch let alone being purposefully caught by asshats. -_-
One of my favorite sharks, aweseome video just in time for Shark Week
I saw a Potto at the zoo today and it made me think of yall! Such an adorable and intriguing primate
I use to really enjoy learning about different animal species as a kid (and still do), but it's crazy to me how I'm still learning about new species that have always been known about. How did i miss this one, like seriously?
That’s quite crazy
De solo verlo en el programa, siento mucho miedo. Gracias Animalogic. Este Tiburón no lo conocía.
"yes sir mr president our enemies are in the arctic setting up bases but don't worry we have a....*sleeper* agent on the field"
Love to still see you drawing while talking about animals
How People Eat these beautiful magnificient Creatures. It's Really Sad
You don't eat meat at all?
greenland shark moment
Awesome~👍
Thank you for sharing this video~🤗
SUPER NICE,
Lovely shark to be around
super cool shark it has extra gear, a side cart for breeding and it lives for 500 years!
I never realized how massive Greenland sharks are
Absolutely my favorite shark of all time! Love the education and the art of your program, it's also my favorite! 💖
Great job Danielle
Plz do the Goblin Shark next, my favorite Halloween shark!
Fisherman Jeremy Wade put it in to good words 'There are Greenland sharks that are swimming around today who were probably alive the same time as Henry the 8th' something like that.
This is a certified 🦈 classic
My FAVORITE shark. Only because we know so little they are so mysterious.
Remember kids, sharks have two
I would no dare to eat a 500 year old animal. I wouldn't be able to sleep for being responsible of the death of such a historic creature
Now this is a shark that takes its time.
This is one of my favorite sharks
Oh gosh Anthony Bourdain, rip in pepperonis my guy. Just another example of how even when you seemingly have it all you can be fighting an invisible battle. I grew up watching his shows and he and others like Zimmern and Brown fueled a lifetime appreciation of food, culture, history, and the world that Im glad Ive found again in a couple of channels here.
If you feel like nothing, you better get up to something. That and more is an exmaple of words I live by to try and just appreciate the ride on this hellcoaster.
The vid doesn't indicate no subtitles, but there are none. Please help deaf people to know about this fascinating animal! 🙂
OMG!! Danielle looks amazing!!💐💯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Favorite shark. I can't help but be reminded of Yoda. You can tell they've been around for half of forever.
In knew that clams can live that long, if not longer, but it’s mind-blowing that a vertebrate has a lifespan in the hundreds of years.
Is a Glass Sponge an animal? Kuz they can live up to 11,000 years 😮
There’s a jelly fish called the immortal jellyfish that can live forever.
Yes glass sponges are animals, and most likely the longest lived animals on the planet.
I always say that God must have taken LSD when he created all those animals in the oceans ! But since we keep polluting everywhere, there's certainly a big bunch of strange things we'll never know about.
There are multiple species of sponges that can probably live thousands of years, and yes, they are animals.
I came to think of, as a Norwegian, a slow TV film of the Greenland Shark.
"Yes, my son, your great-great grandfather began watching the first episode of this show, and we are only halfway!"
So, this must be the unconscious reason I have for doing nothing.
I'm just imitating the Greenland Shark, so I can live for 500 years.
Excuse me while I rest from writing this.
Please make a video about aardvarks.
They've been known to kill Polar Bears! 😮
I'd probably chalk many of those kills up as scavenging. Many things die in the ocean and slowly drift to the bottom where a big feast takes place. I'd imagine even humans end up at the bottom of the ocean floor eaten by things that would normally never come across humans.
@@huldu Wrong. They jump out of the water like flying fish, and hunt polar bears from above
@@wjbt3 With that slow speed I'm going to need some video proof of that before I trust you!
@@wjbt3 Why would they do that when they inhabit near freezing temperature water when there are plenty of dead guys to eat to sustain that giant body without using that much energy?