Nature can be tenacious. Here is the oldest tree found on earth...not so much above ground but, in fact, the oldest root system..more than 9,000 years. The world's oldest known living tree, a conifer that first took root at the end of the last Ice Age, has been discovered in Sweden, researchers say.The visible portion of the 13-foot-tall (4-meter-tall) "Christmas tree" isn't ancient, but its root system has been growing for 9,550 years, according to a team led by Leif Kullman, professor at Umeå University's department of ecology and environmental science in Sweden.
In this lovely coral, we find age under the ocean.
I don't speak clam. I can't imagine what a boring 400 years this poor creature might have lived.
Since many of each species has not survived as long as these specimens, we as humans must continue the quest to understand why some living things last longer than others.
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