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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Charlie Duffield

Shark thought to be alive since Henry VIII in post-mortem after washing up in UK

A rare species of shark stranded in Cornwall has undergone a post-mortem examination - revealing it to be a 13ft long juvenile.

It's thought the creature could have been more than 100 years old, and it was a female, most likely to have live-stranded.

The Greenland shark is believed to be the longest living vertebrate with some living up to 500 years - leading some to believe this particular one could have been alive when Henry VIII was on the throne in the 16th century.

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