The Greenland shark, known formally as Somniosus microcephalus, holds a distinction no other vertebrate can claim: it can ...

A baited camera captured a sleeper shark in the Southern Ocean for the first time. Sharks have survived mass extinctions, shifting continents and dramatic climate swings for more than 400 million ...

Previous research has suggested that Greenland sharks had impaired vision, so Fogg wasn’t expecting to discover anything ...

Mr. Landry is the U.S. special envoy to Greenland and governor of Louisiana. On Jan. 23, 1943, the transport ship Dorchester departed New York Harbor, bound for the U.S. Army command base at ...

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted that his boss in a high-profile speech to world leaders last week confused Iceland and Greenland, contradicting a denial from the president's chief ...

Susan A. Kaplan has received funding from NSF, NEH, IMLS, SSHRC and private foundations to pursue anthropological and archaeological research in Nunatsiavut, NL, Canada; and offer Arctic-focused ...

This past week Greenland was big in the news. Of course, Greenland has always been big. Three times the size of Texas, the world's largest island dominates the arctic space between North America and ...

Kaaleeraq Ringsted, 74, opens his freezer in his home in Kapisillit, Greenland, January 21, 2026. REUTERS/Marko Djurica KAPISILLIT, Greenland, Jan 22 (Reuters) - While many Greenlanders have been ...

Greenland sharks are spilling new secrets about antiaging. In the deep, dark waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic, these ghostly giants — which can live for centuries — have hit upon a few tricks ...

KAPISILLIT, Greenland, Jan 22 (Reuters) - While many Greenlanders have been alarmed by U.S. President Donald Trump's demands to acquire their homeland, others such as Kaaleeraq Ringsted have stayed ...

President Donald Trump’s desire to claim Greenland for the U.S. has thrust the island’s wealth of natural resources firmly into the spotlight. But while geopolitical chatter can make it sound as ...