| Scientists bring Arctic's 'very strange shark' to light |
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Tom Spears, Canwest News Service Canadian fish scientists are opening a window into the mysterious world of the Greenland shark -- the top predator in the Canadian Arctic, yet a giant fish about which almost nothing is known. Except this, says Steve Campana of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, N.S.: "These are very, very strange sharks." Its meat is poison. Its mouth is far under its body. It had almost no spine. It's so lethargic that it doesn't even snap at the scientists who hook it and attach a radio to it. And it may live 200 years.
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