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Longest-living animals on Earth

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Longest-living animals on Earth

Post by Dragon Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:17 am

The longest-living animals are equipped with traits to hold off, and sometimes even stop or reverse, the aging process.

While humans may have an "absolute limit" of 150 years, this is just a blink of an eye compared with the centuries and millennia that some animals live through.

The true age champions live in water, often at great depths where conditions are stable and consistent.

Scientists can't record the birth and death of every member of a species, so they typically estimate maximum life spans based on what is known about a species' biology.

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Post by Dragon Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:21 am

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The immortal jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can potentially live forwever, turning back into polyps if damaged or starving.

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Re: Longest-living animals on Earth

Post by Dragon Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:25 am

This Jellyfish Is Immortal

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A bowhead whale breaches in waters near the Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut, northern Canada.

Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) are the longest-living mammals.

The Arctic and sub-Arctic whales' exact life span is unknown, but stone harpoon tips found in some harvested individuals prove that they comfortably live over 100 years and may live more than 200 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Post by Dragon Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:35 am

The Bowhead Whale

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A Greenland shark swimming in the St. Lawrence River estuary in Canada.

Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) live deep in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.

They can grow to be 24 feet (7.3 meters) long and have a diet that includes a variety of other animals, including fish and marine mammals such as seals, according to the St. Lawrence Shark Observatory in Canada.

A 2016 study of Greenland shark eye tissue, published in the journal Science, estimated that these sharks can have a maximum life span of at least 272 years.

The biggest shark in that study was estimated to be about 392 years old, and the researchers suggested that the sharks could have been up to 512 years old, Live Science previously reported.

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