What is the longest living species?

Answer 1

The answer is definitely a plant.

Scientists think they have proved that a particular plant in Tasmania is 43,000 years old, but there are certainly other plants that have been proved to be 20,000 years old.

Answer 2

The average lifespan for a species is a few million years but there are exceptions:

The very oldest species on Earth are the Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), which seem to have been around virtually unchanged for nearly 4 billion years.

Brachiopoda (two shelled marine animals resembling clams) are the oldest, relatively evolutionarily unchanged animal known.
They have been on this planet over 500 million years.

The horseshoe crab has been around for several hundred million years.

Oldest living thing:

B Permians bacteria: microscopic organisms found in ancient sea salt in New Mexico. Though in suspended animation they were revived and so in effect had been alive for over 250 million years.

Longest living creature:

A Madagascar radiated tortoise (Geochelone radiata) presented to the Tongan royal family by the British explorer Captain Cook in either 1773 or 1777 lived to the age of at least 188 years old.

Answer 3

There is a fungus, Armillaria Bulbosa, in Wisconsin, that is 10 to 15,000 of years old. Is underground and is estimated to weigh 100 tons. In the fall, it produces fruiting bodies (mushrooms) which are edible.
Some 250-million-year-old bacteria were found in ancient sea salt beneath Carlsbad, New Mexico. I don't know whether it should be counted as "longest living" since the bacteria were in suspended animation.
Organisms that produce only by splitting (cloning) can be said to be as old as the first existing member of the species, but that may not be fair. One such organism, King's Holly of Tasmania, is estimated 43,000 years old.

Answer 4

Gallapogus Tortoise, there is one in the late Steve Irwins Australia Zoo that is 170 years old and was orginally taken off the Gallapogus islands by Charles Darwin as part of his study into the Origin.

Saw it on the Steve Irwin show just this weekend!

Answer 5

Within the aninal kingdom, its gotta be the giant tortoise surely. Their average age is something like 200 years, and many live longer.

Answer 6

trees in the rain forest can live to be over 800 years old

Answer 7

in anciant time mamoths are long living mamals

now gramphebean tortois cross bread of galen trotois and phramble tortois estimated to live then any other species on earth

Answer 8

Trees

Answer 9

Giant red woods or Sequoias (Coniferous trees), They can live for thousands of years.

Answer 10

probably pigions
where did they come from