12 Animals with the Longest Lifespan in the World
Methuselah was the oldest man who ever live on Earth. According to the Bible he was 969 years old when he died. Well, how about the longest-living animals to date? Check this out.
Jeanne Calment
On Biblical account, Methuselah was the oldest man who ever lived but Jeanne Calment was the oldest to have verifiable birth records. She was 122 years old at time of death.
Jeanne Louise Calment was born on February 21, 1875 and passed away in August 4, 1997. She was a French woman who reached the longest confirmed lifespan in history at 122 years 164 days (44,724 days in total). Her lifespan has been thoroughly documented by scientific study; more records have been produced to verify her age than for any other case.
1. Turitopsis nutricula or Hydrozoan
This creature, unofficially, can be considered to have the longest lifespan. The Hydrozoan species Turitopsis nutricula is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, indefinitely. This means there is, theoretically, no limit to its life span, although no single specimen has been observed for any extended period and it is impossible to estimate the age of a specimen.
2. Cyprine Arctica Islandica or Quahog
A creature with longest lifespan ever recorded is Quahog. A specimen of the Icelandic Cyprine Arctica islandica (also known as an ocean quahog), a mollusk, was found to have lived 405 years and possibly up to 410. Another specimen had a recorded lifespan of 374 years.
In 2006 and 2007, separate specimens collected off the coast of Iceland were found to be more than 400 years old, making the Arctica islandica clam the longest-lived animal species ever recorded.
3. Koi
Among the fishes, koi is one of the longest-live. Koi, or more specifically nishikigoi, which literally means "brocaded carp", are ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp scientifically known as Cyprinus carpio. Some koi fish have reportedly lived up to over 200 years. The oldest living koi on record was Hanako, it died at an age of 226 years on July 7, 1977.
4. Bowhead Whale
The Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus), also known as Greenland Right Whale or Arctic Whale, is a baleen whale of the right whale family Balaenidae. A stocky dark-colored whale without a dorsal fin, it can grow to 20�meters (66�ft) in length. Estimated maximum weight of this thick-bodied species is 136 tonnes (152 tons), second only to the Blue Whale, although the Bowhead lags behind several other whales in maximum length. The Bowhead spends all of its life in fertile Arctic waters, unlike other whales that migrate for feeding or reproduction. Some unconfirmed sources estimated Bowhead Whales to have lived up to 210 years of age. If proven this would make them the oldest mammals.
5. Radiated Tortoise
A radiated tortoise named Tu Malila from Madagascar is considered as the longest-lived animal according to authenticated records. Tu' Malila was hatched in 1777 and died on May 19, 1965 with an age of 188 years. Verification of the age of another tortoise, Adwaita, is still pending; that animal was said to have been born around 1750 and died in 2006 at the possible age of 256.
6. Galapagos Tortoise
The Galapagos tortoise or Galapagos giant tortoise is the largest living tortoise. It is native to nine islands of the Galapagos archipelago. Adults of large subspecies can weigh over 300 kilograms (660lb) and measure 1.2�meters (4�ft) long. Although the maximum life expectancy of a wild tortoise is unknown, the average life expectancy is estimated to be 150-200 years. Harriet the tortoise, one of the oldest animals in the world who some claim was studied by the pioneering 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin, has died in Australia at 175 years of age.
7. Greek Tortoise
The Spur-thighed Tortoise or Greek Tortoise is one of four European members of the Testudinidae family of tortoises. Timothy, a Greek Tortoise, died at an age of 160 years in April 2004.
8. Geoduck
The geoduck (pronounced "gooey duck") is a species of large saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk. The shell of this clam is large, about 15 to over 20 cm in length (about 7 to 9 inches), but the tremendously long siphons make the clam itself much longer; the "neck" or siphons alone can be one meter in length. Geoduck, a species of saltwater clam native to the Puget Sound, has been known to live over 160 years.
9. �Blue-and-Yellow Macaw
Amongst the birds, macaw has the longest lifespan. Charlie (hatched c. 1899), also known as Charlie the Curser, is a Blue-and-yellow macaw living at Heathfield Nurseries, a pet sanctuary in Reigate, Surrey, England. Charlie became famous when The Daily Mirror published an article about her in January 2004; she is 109-year old.
10. Patagonian Toothfish
This species of fish is known to live for more than a hundred year. Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) is a fish found in the cold temperate waters (from 45 to 3850�m depth) of the Southern Atlantic, Southern Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans on seamounts and continental shelves around most sub-Antarctic islands. The average weight of a commercially caught toothfish is 9-10 kilograms (20 pounds) with large adults occasionally exceeding 200 kilograms (440 pounds). They are thought to live to fifty years, reaching a length of 2.3 meters (8 feet).
11. Sturgeon
Like the Patagonian Toothfish, this species of fish can live over a hundred year. One of the oldest families of bony fish in existence, they are native to subtropical, temperate and sub-arctic rivers, lakes and coastlines of Eurasia and North America. They are distinctive for their elongated bodies, lack of scales, and occasional great size: Sturgeons ranging from 7-12 feet (2-3� m) in length are common, and some species grow up to 18�feet (5.5�m).
12.Tubeworm or Lamellibrachia luymesi
This tubeworm has a lifespan of over 170 years and its survival is contingent upon the availability of sulfide during this long period. Lamellibrachia luymesi is a deep-sea vestimentiferan tubeworm that forms large bush-like aggregations at hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. Like all vestimentiferans, L. luymesi obtains its nutrition from sulfide-oxidizing endosymbiotic bacteria, which it houses in an internal organ called the trophosome.
Most of the longest-lived animals live in water; three are amphibians, a bird and a human being.
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