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The shark that lives for 400 years

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A mottled grey Greenland shark swims beneath bright blue ice (Credit: Lars von Ritter Zahony/Ocean Image Bank)

The shark that lives for 400 years

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The seals thriving on an abandoned prison island

By Tom Peeters

A slender blue shark speeds under the ocean surface (Credit: Hannes Klostermann/ Ocean Image Bank)

Nine things you probably didn't know about sharks

By Jocelyn Timperley, Sofia Quaglia, Katherine Latham and Stephen Dowling

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