– Why Are Catfish In Sweden Living As Long As Humans?:
Europe’s Wels catfish has to be one of the most intriguing freshwater fish in the world. Individuals can grow to monstrous sizes, proven to measure as long as nine feet and weigh 400 pounds or more in rare circumstances. They’ve even been repeatedly seen beaching themselves to capture and consume pigeons dawdling on the shores of lakes and rivers. Now, a team of biologists based out of Linnaeus University in Sweden reports that catfish in the Nordic country are living 70 years or longer.
The longest-living fish (and the longest-living vertebrate, for that matter), the Greenland shark, also dwells in frigid waters and grows slowly. The oldest known is around 400 years old!
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