Consider the Greenland Shark (2020) (lrb.co.uk)

Katherine Rundell uses the Greenland shark as a lens on deep time, describing how science estimates these slow, long-lived fish can live for several centuries. She details their distinctive features—such as long-lived parasites in their eyes and urea-rich flesh that must be fermented to be eaten—as well as their elusive reproduction and the uncertainty around their conservation status. The piece ends by framing the shark’s persistence as a rare, hopeful continuity amid human upheaval.