List of long-living organisms
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This is a list of long-living organisms.
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[edit] Plants
[edit] Individual plants
- Conifer, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva): Oldest known living plant, a tree called "Prometheus" at 4,844 years old when it was felled in 1964.[1]
- Flowering plant, a Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa): Specimen (the Sri Maha Bodhi) 2293 years old.
[edit] Clonal colonies
Note that no individual part of a clonal colony lives for more than a very small fraction of the times reported for the whole clone in itself. Clone ages are highly speculative, with no hard measurable evidence for their ages.
- A huge Posidonia oceanica could be up to 100,000 years of age.
- Pando (Quaking Aspen), the clone is considered to be possibly up to 80,000 years old.
- King's Lomatia: this clone is claimed to be 43,600 years old.[2]
- Eucalyptus recurva: clones claimed to be 13,000 years old.[3]
- Creosote bush: some claim clones of these plants live up to 11,700 years old.[4]
[edit] Animals
- Mollusk: The Icelandic Cyprine Arctica islandica, is the oldest reported animal ever, with a maximum recorded lifespan of 374 years.[5]
- Reptile:
- a Galápagos tortoise named Harriet: died in 2006 at an unconfirmed age of 175 years old.[6]
- Tu'i Malila: died at an unconfirmed[citation needed] age of 188 or 192 years old.
- Adwaita: died at an unconfirmed[citation needed] age of 256 years old.
- Mammal, Bowhead Whale: unconfirmed sources estimate some to be 245 years old.[7]
- Human, Jeanne Calment: 122 years old at time of death.
- Fish, Chilean sea bass: reports claim[citation needed] these fish live to be 100+ years old.
- Bird, A female Blue-and-yellow Macaw named Charlie, born in 1899. It was falsely claimed that she formerly belonged to Winston Churchill. Currently 106 years old.
[edit] References
- ^ Gymnosperm Database (4 February 2006). How Old Is That Tree?. Retrieved on 2006-07-25.
- ^ Discovery Channel (21 October 1996). Tasmanian bush could be oldest living organism. Retrieved on 2006-07-25.
- ^ Oldest Living Organism. Retrieved on 2006-07-25.
- ^ A flowering bush is the oldest organism on Earth (10 July 2003). Retrieved on 2006-07-25.
- ^ Schöne et al. (2005). "Climate records from a bivalved Methuselah". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (228): 130-148.
- ^ "Harriet the Tortoise dies at 175", BBC News, 23 June 2006.
- ^ Alaska Science Forum (15 February 2001). Bowhead Whales May Be the World's Oldest Mammals. Retrieved on 2006-07-25.
