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
Namib Naukluft Desert, Namibia
Sagole Baobab; 2,000 years old
Limpopo Province, South Africa
Brain Coral; 2,000 years old
Speyside, Tobago
Sentinel Tree; 2,150 years old
Sequoia National Park, CA
Patagonian Cypress; 2,200 years old
Alerce Costero National Monument, Chile
Armillaria Ostoyae; 2,400 years old
Malhuer National Forest, OR
Fortingall Yew; 2-5,000 years old
Perthshire, Scotland
Jomon Sugi Japanese Cedar; 2,000-7,000 years old
Yaku Shima, Japan
Chestnut Tree; 3,000 years old
Sant A'lfio, Sicily
Olive Tree; 3,000 years old
Ano Vouves, Crete
La Llareta; 3,000 years old
Atacama Desert, Chile
Bald Cyprus; 3,500 years old
Seminole County, FL
Bristlecone Pine; 5,000 years old
White Mountains, CA
Spruce Gran Picea; 9,500 years old
Fulufjället, Sweden
Antarctic Beech; 12,000 years old
Clonal Mojave Yucca; 12,000 years old
Mojave Desert, CA
Clonal Creosote Bush; 12,000 years old
Mojave Desert, CA
Underground Forest; 13,000 years old
Pretoria, South Africa
Lomatia Tasmanica; 43,600 years old
Clonal Quaking Aspens; 80,000 years old
Fish Lake, UT
Posidonia Oceania Sea Grass; 100,000 years old
Balearic Islands, Spain
Siberian Actinobacteria; 400,000-600,000 years old
Neils Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
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and even clones have genetic drift if i'm not mistaken.