2007-06-27 01:27:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Harriet the tortoise, 176
giant tortoise, aldabra tortoise
There is also evidence that whales live to be over 100 years old, though scientists aren't sure how old a whale can live.
Koi (a kind of oriental carp that can be colored like a goldfish) can also live extraordinarily long lives.
Now, if you mean oldest animal as in "most ancient", like the dinosaurs, then bacteria is considered the oldest.
2007-06-27 02:21:25 · answer #1 · answered by endpov 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The last answer is ridiculous. Nothing is secret in the Vatican Library except the most recent archives. Just like civil governments they keep the archives closed until most of the people who might be mentioned in the documents have died. They are now opening ones from the middle of the 20th century. The Library has some of the oldest documents known. But each is catalogued and known and has been seen by scholars whether Catholic or not.
2016-05-17 08:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is said that people hold that record: Methuselah at 969 but that was in the bible. If you are looking for something a little less controverisial, a giant Galapagos land tortoise named Harriet. She was born in 1830 and is over 177 years old.
2007-06-27 01:46:02 · answer #3 · answered by stardust12081 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
possibly bacteria which can survive very long. Even when they r in hard places, in which they can't survive in, they develop a cyst, which protects them, and which is not heavy, so wind can easily blow them away on a better place in which they can live, feed and mate._
I am not sure for that, but this something below, I've found on the Internnet, I hope it's true. look
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+search+for+the+oldest+animals-a019978582
2007-06-27 02:49:00 · answer #4 · answered by Joka B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always thought that the horseshoe crab was the oldest surviving creature on earth, they were around when the dinosaurs roamed the earth weren't they?
2007-06-27 11:13:37 · answer #5 · answered by Madonna S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the giant tortoise under captivity.
if u are looking for the species which survived the longest it would be cockroach.they were on earth before dinosaur era
2007-06-27 03:15:36 · answer #6 · answered by goldie B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to this web page there was a tortoise that died at age 250.
http://www.livescience.com/animals/060324_ap_tortoise_death.html
2007-06-27 01:53:05 · answer #7 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam
2007-06-27 01:31:00 · answer #8 · answered by bedu 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are horses, that live to be in their 30's.
2007-06-27 01:35:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
tortoise
2007-06-27 03:13:46 · answer #10 · answered by Rajkumar MJ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋