The Slow, Old Greenland Shark!
Fish of the Week!
English - July 17, 2023 04:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsWilderness Sports Science Nature fish fishing culture fisheries fisheries management conservation science indigenous rivers coasts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Pygmy Sunfish: Mini Seven
Next Episode: Tennessee's Barrens Topminnow
If you're feeling old and slow today, the Greenland Shark has you beat! In addition to being the largest Arctic fish and one of the slowest swimming sharks, they are THE LONGEST LIVING VERTEBRATE and can live for hundreds of years!! PhD student Eric Ste-Marie from the University of Windsor's Hussey Lab studies the behavior and physiology of these sharks in the Canadian Arctic and is our guest.