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Danish zoologists made an unexpected and surprising find in northern coast of Greenland. Scientists have caught a 3-meter atlantic polar shark that turned out to be truly unique an individual of his kind. Fortunately, the fish did not die, and experts from University of Copenhagen determined how rare a specimen fell into their hands, studying him alive. Then huge sea the occupant was released back into the water.
It turned out that the age of the shark is about 512 years, i.e. over half a millennium! Imagine this fish is bigger resembling a monster from Howard Lovecraft’s book, she lived even then, when Ivan the Terrible ruled Russia, and in England earned fame National poet William Shakespeare. According to impressed with their the discovery of Danish researchers, they sincerely hope that this the creature will live as much and someday it will surprise me much more their colleagues from the future.
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Amazingly, many species of sharks are hypothetically capable of living. forever. If such a fish does not fall ill with external ailments factors, and does not receive critical injuries, does not die from others, even more terrible monsters of the ocean depths (it happens, for example, in 2009, Australian fishermen near Stradbrook Island pulled out the net part of the shark, which during life was no less than 8 meters, and she was bitten by some kind of sea monster – such a monster should be at least 15 meters long: see about this video below), it may continue to exist infinitely long. Science calls this phenomenon “negligible aging. ”
Neglected aging among some of our living organisms planet is one of the most significant arguments in favor of theories that a person, in principle, can live forever, you only need to launch a similar mechanism in his body, which they are working on today hundreds of the greatest minds of the planet …
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