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This is a list of the longest-living biological organisms: the individual(s) (or in some instances, clones) of a species with the longest natural maximum life spans. For a given species, such a designation may include: The oldest known individual(s) that are currently alive, with verified ages.
Evidence of possibly the oldest forms of life on Earth has been found in hydrothermal vent precipitates. [1]The earliest known life forms on Earth may be as old as 4.1 billion years (or Ga) according to biologically fractionated graphite inside a single zircon grain in the Jack Hills range of Australia. [2]
Pneumodesmus newmani is a species of myriapod.It is originally considered that it lived during the late Wenlock epoch of the Silurian period around 1] [2] [3] However, a 2017 study dates its occurrence based on zircon data analysis as the Early Devonian (). [4]
The Oldest Living Organism Is Over 2 Billion Years Old. Scientists have identified the oldest living species on Earth is a deep sea organism that hasn't evolved in more than two billion years. And ...
A recent study of gelatinous marine creatures revealed a curious ability in which two animals fuse and function as a single organism. The comb jelly, one of the oldest animals on Earth, can fuse ...
King Clone is thought to be the oldest creosote bush ring in the Mojave Desert. The ring is estimated to be 11,700 years old, making it one of the oldest living organisms on Earth. This single clonal colony plant of Larrea tridentata reaches up to 67 feet (20 metres) in diameter, with an average diameter of 45 feet (14 m). [1] [2] [3]
Formation of a greenstone belt of the Acasta Gneiss of the Slave craton in northwest Canada - the oldest known rock belt. [28] 3900–2500 Ma Cells resembling prokaryotes appear. [29] These first organisms are believed to have been chemoautotrophs, using carbon dioxide as a carbon source and oxidizing inorganic materials to extract energy. 3800 Ma
The claim that Methuselah is the oldest known tree is controversial. Methuselah was 4,789 years old when sampled in 1957 [13] by Edmund Schulman and Tom Harlan, [1] with an estimated germination date of 2833 BC. Dendrochronologist Matthew Salzer of the University of Arizona has been unable to reproduce Schulman's age estimate, due to a missing ...