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 Apparently, Geenland sharks are now living in the St.Lawrence river.The Greenland shark typically inhabits the deep, dark waters between Greenland and the polar ice cap. At over six metres long and weighing up to 2,000 kilograms, it is the largest shark in the North Atlantic and the only shark in the world that lives under Arctic ice. Not only are they big, but may live for hundreds of years. Various historic accounts and anecdotes portray the Greenland shark as a scavenger that dwells in extremely deep water -- one was spotted at a depth of more than 2,100 metres. They favour seal carcasses but will eat almost anything -- one was found with an entire caribou in its stomach. The only age analysis to date, by Norwegian researchers, pegs them growing about half a centimetre a year, which would put a seven metre adult at several hundred years old, easily beating the giant tortoise by decades, even centuries. They apparently began to summer in the St.Lawrence recently, around the Baie-Comeau region. |
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