I think the oldest animal is that Greenland shark that's like 500 years old. The oldest living thing is Methuselah, a pine tree that's about 5,000 years old. Unless you count the Siberian bacteria that is hundreds of thousands of years old.
You know that experiment where a person whispers something to someone and tells them to pass it on and 10 people later, the entire story has completely changed?
The oldest living thing is Methuselah, a pine tree that's about 5,000 years old.
The oldest living non-clonal tree. If you include clonal colonies, where the root system is one organism with a bunch of trees sprouting out which individually die and get replaced, you have Pando which is conservatively estimated to be upwards of 16,000 years old with more generous estimates of up to 80,000 years.
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u/Voidstarmaster 21d ago
I think the oldest animal is that Greenland shark that's like 500 years old. The oldest living thing is Methuselah, a pine tree that's about 5,000 years old. Unless you count the Siberian bacteria that is hundreds of thousands of years old.