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Jeanne Calment, a French woman, lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days, making her the oldest fully documented human who has ever lived. She died on August 4, 1997. [106] Jiroemon Kimura (†116 years, 54 days), a Japanese man, died on 12 June 2013. He holds the record for the oldest ever male human.
In 2017, Methuselah was unofficially designated as the oldest living aquarium fish following the death of Granddad, another Australian lungfish residing at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, then estimated to be 95 years old. [10] A later study estimated Granddad to have been 109 years old at the time of his death. [11]
Ming was the oldest individual (non-clonal) animal ever discovered whose age could be precisely determined. [1] [2] [3] Thought to be 405 years old, Ming was later determined to be 507 years old, although the clam had previously been killed to make this determination. The size of the clam was 87 mm × 73 mm (3.4 in × 2.9 in).
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the discovery of a sea sponge which may be one of the world’s oldest living animals.
Hanako (Japanese: 花子) (purportedly c. 1751 – July 7, 1977) was a scarlet koi fish reportedly owned by several individuals, the last of whom was Komei Koshihara. She was reported to be the longest-lived koi fish ever recorded, having died at the age of 226, although there is dispute as to the veracity of her longevity.
The bdelloid rotifer is awake - and we're going to need to buy some more birthday candles. For the past 24,000 years, the multicellular microorganism had been snoozing in Siberian permafrost ...
Perucetus colossus, a giant whale that lived almost 40 million years ago is now thought to be the heaviest animal that has ever lived, scientists said Wednesday.
The oldest known coelacanth fossils date back more than 410 million years. Coelacanths were thought to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous , around 66 million years ago, but were discovered living off the coast of South Africa in 1938.