Meet these amazing living things which are still among us despite being born more than two thousand years ago. They would call any centenarian a toddler… if only they could talk.

Welwitschia; 2,000 years old

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Namib Naukluft Desert, Namibia

Sagole Baobab; 2,000 years old

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Limpopo Province, South Africa

Brain Coral; 2,000 years old

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Speyside, Tobago

Sentinel Tree; 2,150 years old

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Sequoia National Park, CA

Patagonian Cypress; 2,200 years old

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Alerce Costero National Monument, Chile

Armillaria Ostoyae; 2,400 years old

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Malhuer National Forest, OR

Fortingall Yew; 2-5,000 years old

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Perthshire, Scotland

Jomon Sugi Japanese Cedar; 2,000-7,000 years old

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Yaku Shima, Japan

Chestnut Tree; 3,000 years old

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Sant A'lfio, Sicily

Olive Tree; 3,000 years old

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Ano Vouves, Crete

La Llareta; 3,000 years old

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Atacama Desert, Chile

Bald Cyprus; 3,500 years old

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Seminole County, FL

Bristlecone Pine; 5,000 years old

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White Mountains, CA

Spruce Gran Picea; 9,500 years old

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Fulufjället, Sweden

Antarctic Beech; 12,000 years old

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Clonal Mojave Yucca; 12,000 years old

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Mojave Desert, CA

Clonal Creosote Bush; 12,000 years old

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Mojave Desert, CA

Underground Forest; 13,000 years old

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Pretoria, South Africa

Lomatia Tasmanica; 43,600 years old

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Clonal Quaking Aspens; 80,000 years old

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Fish Lake, UT

Posidonia Oceania Sea Grass; 100,000 years old

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Balearic Islands, Spain

Siberian Actinobacteria; 400,000-600,000 years old

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Neils Bohr Institute, Copenhagen