The longest-living animals
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: Immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) · Freshwater pearl mussel · Bowhead whale. (Updated Jan 29, 2020.)
The longest-lived animals on the planet, from sponges thousands of years old to giant tortoises, according to Wikipedia's list of longest-living organisms. Many ages are estimates.
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Top 20
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Immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)
Biologically immortal: it can revert to the polyp stage and start its life cycle again.
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Freshwater pearl mussel
Can live 210 to 250 years.
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Bowhead whale
At least 211 years: the longest-lived mammal.
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Glass sponges
Specimens from the East China Sea and Southern Ocean estimated at over 10,000 years: probably the longest-lived animal on Earth.
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Black coral (Leiopathes)
Colonies around 4,265 years old, among the oldest living things on the planet.
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Giant barrel sponge
In the Caribbean, the largest specimens are over 2,300 years old.
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Ocean quahog (Arctica islandica)
The specimen nicknamed Ming lived 507 years.
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Greenland shark
A 2016 study put one specimen at 272 to 512 years old: the longest-lived vertebrate.
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Aldabra giant tortoise
Adwaita, who died at Kolkata zoo in 2006, was estimated to be about 255.
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Rougheye rockfish
Can reach 205 years.
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Red sea urchin
Specimens over 200 years old have been found.
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Seychelles giant tortoise
Jonathan, on the island of Saint Helena, hatched around 1832, is the oldest known living land animal.
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Radiated tortoise
Tu'i Malila, hatched in 1777, died in 1966 aged 188.
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Geoduck
A giant Pacific clam that can live over 160 years.
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Orange roughy
Up to 149 years.
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American lobster
George, caught in 2009, was estimated at about 140 years old.
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Lake sturgeon
In 2012 one about 125 years old was caught in Wisconsin.
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Human
Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment lived 122 years and 164 days: the documented record.
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Sulphur-crested cockatoo
Cocky Bennett, in Australia, lived to 120: the oldest known bird.
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Tuatara
New Zealand's reptile lives well over 100 years; Henry first bred at 111.
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Asian elephant
Dakshayani, in India, died in 2019 aged 88 or 89.
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Koi carp
Some koi live more than 50 years; the most famous, Hanako, would have exceeded 200 according to the scale rings.
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Comments (3)
La medusa immortale che torna giovane, sembra fantascienza.
Le spugne vitree migliaia di anni, non lo sapevo!
Lo squalo della Groenlandia che vive quasi 400 anni, incredibile.