Meet 5 remarkably old animals, from a Greenland shark to a featherless, seafaring cockatoo
- Written by: Benjamin Mayne, Molecular biologist and bioinformatician, CSIRO
Some animals can live to a startlingly old age, from the famous 392-year-old “Greenland shark” to a 190-year-old tortoise in the Seychelles. Two science studies published last week brings us closer to understanding why some animal species can live for so long – far longer than humans.
The first, published in Science, debunked a...





















