What is the oldest living being of the world?

Answer 1

I'm going to assume that you're talking about ALL living entities when you say "beings", not just animals, and tell you about two remarkable discoveries from my home in Tasmania - the southernmost state of Australia.

In 1993, a forester was walking in a very wild and remote part of the West Coast of Tasmania, called Mount Read. He walked into a forest of Huon Pine (Lagarastrobus franklinii), which is one of the 13 species of pine trees which are unique to the Island. He was pretty surprised to find it growing atop a mountain because the Huon is more usually found growing along the banks of rivers. So, being a well-trained botanist, he collected some foliage, a sample of root material and some bark which he then sent to the botany department of the University of Tasmania.

The folks who looked at these samples were astounded. They didn't jump to any rash conclusions however, preferring to go back to Mount Read and collect more of this forest of about 100 trees. Their further studies confirmed what they had first seen - that this place and forest was unique and very, very special. For a start, every one of the 100 or so trees in the area of about 1 hectare (a circle with a diameter of 100 metres) all shared exactly the same DNA structure, but as the Huon is one of the few plants which are able to clone themselves in the wild, this wasn't THE surprise....

Further research happened in the form of a core sample of the sediments of the small lake which some of the forest overhung. From this sample they were able to determine that pollen had been dropping into the lake for a very long time indeed. Radiocarbon dating established that the oldest pollen grains they could detect were ancient. Estimates range between ten thousand five hundred and twenty - two thousand years.

Yep, the one plant's been happily existing there for, once again, between 10 500 and 22 000 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Luckily, the mining company which "owned" the lease recognised the significance and promptly handed the site and lease over to the National Parks and Wildlife Service of Tasmania. It is now a reserve with the most severe restrictions - a Nature Reserve. You must have scientifically valid reasons for visiting the Mount Read Nature Reserve and to date only about 5 permits have been granted. There is a boardwalk some 200m. distant and you can only use this if you're in the company of an approved tour guide.

The Old Huon Forest held the status of the World's oldest living thing for just a few years, until a bunch of scientists were studying the south coast of Tasmania at a place called Cox's Bight.

They found a fairly nondescript shrub which had not been seen before - a member of the Lomatia family called Lomatia tasmanica or King's Holly. It was very unusual in that there was only one colony to be found anywhere and the colony was growing in an area of just 1.2 square kilometres. When they tested these plants, it was found to have a single DNA structure throughout it's entire extent. The thing that REALLY threw them was that they found fossilised remains of King's Holly about 8km. away. From this they were able to date the sample using radiocarbon techniques to tell them that they were looking at the same plant. They then calculated how fast the plant was growing and I'm pretty sure they began to feel very strange inside. The single known colony of the species King's Holly has been doing it's thing at Cox's Bight for...wait for it....

more than FORTY THOUSAND YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If this doesn't get the prize for the oldest living thing there is something wrong, eh!!!

There aren't many references to the precise location of King's Holly as the Tasmanian NPWS would rather keep quiet about this and protect it through sheer lack of knowledge rather than have it destroyed through ignorance or some other horrid human action!

Hope this helps,

Love and Light,


Jarrah

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Answer 3

Is a bacteria called B. permians.It Is 250 million years old and it is still living today.

Answer 4

There are some turtles that live hundreds of years.

Answer 5

trees like the bristle cone pine

Answer 6

Its a tortoise. I don't know the name:(

Answer 7

My mother!!

Answer 8

i think tortoise