The oldest human was Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122. Asian elephants and macaws go up to 100, and whales perhaps double that. Giant tubeworms at the bottom of the ocean live, perhaps, 200 years. Hanako, a Japanese Koi, passed away at 226. Adwaita, a Galapagos tortoise in India, was known to live to 255:
Ming, a quahog clam, was 410 years old. Found in Iceland, annual growth rings can be determined from the shell:
Methuselah, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, born when the Great Pyramid was built, is 4844 (or 5062, depending on who you ask and which exact pine) years old, and can be found two miles above sea level in the Inyo National Forest in California:
The site is kept secret, possibly because the previous oldest tree, Prometheus, was killed for the sake of science. About a decade ago a few pine seeds of Methuselah sprouted and were planted.
A Quaking Aspen in the Fishlake National Forest, is around 80,000 years old:
Doesn't look too old to me, but this aspen clones itself, and perpetuates like a coral reef (the black coral can be more than 4,000 years old). A great variety of trees on various continents and islands live thousands of years.
There are claims that bacterial spores were revived from 40 million year old amber and 250 million year old salt deposits:
However, Turritopsis nutricula, a jellyfish, is supposedly biologically immortal:
Other exceptions such as a hydras, flatworms and lobsters might also live forever:
Nah, this is a statue in New Brunswick, Canada.
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