The body of a rare shark born when King Henry VIII was on the throne has been found off Britain.
The Greenland shark which has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species between 250 and 500 years was spotted by a walker on a beach at Newlyn Harbour near Penzance, Cornwall on Sunday, March 13.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust's Marine Strandings Network was contacted and arrived at the beach within an hour but the tide had come in and washed the shark back out into the sea.
