What's the oldest living thing alive?

Answer 1

In 2000, a trio of scientists led by Russell H. Vreeland at West Chester University of Pennsylvania described in the journal Nature the isolation of a dormant, yet living, bacterium. The microbe came from pockets, or inclusions, of fluid trapped inside 250-million-year-old salt crystals buried half a kilometer deep in New Mexico. They gave it the unprepossessing name of Bacillus (later, Virgibacillus) species 2-9-3.
So its bacteria....

Answer 2

Do you mean an individual living thing, or species?

The Ceolacanth still exists and is the oldest species around that I can think of, they go back farther than the dinosaurs. But I don't know what the lifespan of an individual fish is.

Now for individual things, trees are the winner. In the animal kingdom, there are bowhead whales and giant turtles that live for maybe two hundred years, but some redwood & pine trees have been around for thousands.

As sparkz mentioned earlier, scientists found some really old bacteria back in 2000, but that was a freak natural accident that kept them frozen/suspended for so long- that's not their natural lifespan. But they win the prize if you're just looking for the oldest organisms currently alive, regardless of circumstance.

Answer 3

Depends on the definition of living. The Mexican Creosote Bush lives 10,000 years or so, but people say no part of an old one that you see living today was actually around then. So if you mean continuous life in the same cells the usual answer is the Bristlecone Pine, which can live about 4000 years

Answer 4

I think the oldest living thing that's alive came to pass about a year ago, so there is no longer any oldest living thing that's alive. It's a thing of the past I think.

Answer 5

There are some bristlecone pines trees living in California that are over 4000 years old!

Answer 6

Trees

Answer 7

Mosquitos..bcoz they have developed a mechenism to produce antibodies in thier body so as to remain alive for lacs of years

Answer 8

The Sequoia or Giant Redwoods of California. Some were growing at the time Christ was born.

Answer 9

Prostitution

Answer 10

It,s a lady called Essmay. She own,s a pub called the P A, in a village called dunkeld, in scotland! she has been there since time began and does not age? ever??? she,s really nice person, tho a bit spooky!