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Cartilage is lighter and more flexible than calcified bone.
Like other sharks, Greenland sharks possess cartilage instead of bone, a flexible skeletal material better suited to withstand deep sea pressure without fracturing.
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At depths exceeding 2,000 meters, rigid air-filled or brittle structures would fail, but cartilage allows structural resilience under immense compressive force.
This anatomical design contributes to their ability to function across one of the broadest depth ranges of any large vertebrate predator.
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