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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]
The organism is in the shape of a flattened torus, with the long axis of its toroidal body running through the approximate center of the presumed gut cavity. [62] Quilted organisms The organisms considered in Seilacher's revised definition of the Vendobionta [15] share a "quilted" appearance and resembled an inflatable mattress. Sometimes these ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
PSR B1620-26 b is an exoplanet located approximately 12,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius.It bears the unofficial nicknames "Methuselah" and "the Genesis planet" (named after the Biblical character Methuselah, who, according to the Bible, lived to be the oldest person) due to its extreme age.
The 1.6-billion-year-old organisms are believed to have been the first predators on Earth. ‘Lost world’ of microscopic life in rocks could be humans’ oldest ancestors, experts say Skip to ...