Super-rare 100-year-old Greenland shark stranded on British beach died of meningitis
dailystar.co.ukshark that was stranded on a British beach last month died of meningitis, it has been announced. The female shark measuring 13ft (3.96m) long was found stuck near Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall on March 13.
It was originally returned to the sea successfully but was later discovered dead. The pathologists at Zoological Society London’s (ZSL’s) Cetacean Stranding Investigate Programme who conducted the post-mortem determined that the animal had died from some kind of meningitis-like brain infection.
This marks the first time one of the otherwise “invincible” Greenland sharks has been found to have died from the brain disease.
Often living from between 250 to 500 years, Greenland sharks today could have been born during the reign of Henry VIII and are considered extremely rare and mysterious creatures rarely observed by humans.
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