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Greenland Shark, Baffin Island, Canada, 1996

Well adapted to life in the frigid dark waters of the Arctic and Atlantic, Greenland sharks probably evolved from an ancient deep-water species.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Greenland Sharks," September 1998, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Nick Caloyianis

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