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格陵兰鲨鱼堪称脊椎动物界寿星 This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. By human standards, a few vertebrate species have incredible longevity. Some tortoises live for nearly 200 years. Bowhead whales can live even a decade or two longer. But now theres a new champion: the Greenland shark—which conservative estimates have swimming in the seas for almost three centuries. Julius Nielsen is a marine biologist and PhD student at the University of Copenhagen. While on a research vessel in Greenland where such sharks were accidentally caught, Nielsen became curious about the creatures. An