List of Long-living Organisms - Animals

Animals

• Turritopsis nutricula, the immortal jellyfish, is known to be the longest living creature which could live on forever without dying of old age. Most may be aged a few hundred years, as they still can be killed.
• Some species of sponges in the ocean near Antarctica are thought to be 10,000 years old.
• The Greenland Shark can have up to an estimated 400-year lifespan.
• Specimens of the black coral genus Leiopathes are among the oldest continuously living organisms on the planet: around 4,265 years old.
• The giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta is one of the longest-lived animals, with the largest specimens in the Caribbean estimated to be in excess of 2,300 years.
• The black coral Antipatharia in the Gulf of Mexico may live more than 2000 years.
• The Antarctic sponge Cinachyra antarctica has an extremely slow growth rate in the low temperatures of the Southern Ocean. One specimen has been estimated to be 1,550 years old.
• A specimen of the Icelandic Cyprine Arctica islandica (also known as an ocean quahog), a mollusk, was found to have lived 507 years . Another specimen had a recorded life span of 374 years.
• Some koi fish have reportedly lived more than 200 years, the oldest being Hanako, who died at an age of 226 years on July 7, 1977.
• Orange roughy, also known as Deep Sea Perch, lives as long as 149 or 156 years.
• Some confirmed sources estimated Bowhead Whales to have lived at least to 211 years of age, making them the oldest mammals.
• In recent times, the Russian malacologist Valeriy Zyuganov received worldwide reputation after he determined the maximum lifespan (210–250 years) in the freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera). The data of V.V. Zyuganov have been confirmed by Finnish malacologists and gained general acceptance.
• Specimens of the Red Sea Urchin, Strongylocentrotus franciscanus, have been found to be over 200 years old.
• Adwaita, a Aldabra Giant Tortoise died at the age of 255 in March 2006.
• Tu'i Malila, a Radiated tortoise, died at an age of 188 years in May 1965, the oldest verified vertebrate.
• Harriet, a Galápagos tortoise, died at the age of 175 years in June 2006.
• The deep-sea hydrocarbon seep tubeworm Lamellibrachia luymesi (Annelida, Polychaeta) lives for more than 170 years.
• Timothy, a Greek Tortoise, died at an age of 160 years in April 2004.
• Geoduck, a species of saltwater clam native to the Puget Sound, have been known to live more than 160 years.
• George the lobster was estimated to be approximately 140 years old by PETA in January 2009.
• In 2012, a sturgeon was caught in a Wisconsin river that was estimated to be 125 years old.
• Jeanne Calment was the oldest human to have verifiable birth records. She was 122 years old at time of death in 1997.
• Tardigrades, capable of cryptobiosis, have been shown to survive nearly 120 years in a dry state.
• The tuatara can live well above 100 years. Henry, a tuatara at the Southland Museum in New Zealand, mated for the first time at the age of 111 years in 2009 with an 80-year-old female and fathered 11 baby tuataras.
• A female Blue-and-yellow Macaw named Charlie was reportedly hatched in 1899, which would make her 111 years old, as of 2010. Her age has not been independently confirmed and the claim may not be reliable. She is claimed to have formerly belonged to Winston Churchill, but Churchill's daughter denies the claim.
• An orca of the "Southern Resident Community" identified as J-2 or Granny is estimated to be the oldest orca in the entire community and is 101 years old, as of 2012.
• Lin Wang, an Asian elephant was the oldest elephant in the Taipei Zoo. He was born in 1917 and died in February 2003 at age 86, surpassing the previous record of 84. Normally elephants live up to 50, while their maximum lifespan is generally estimated at 70.
• Thaao, the Andean condor died at the age of 80.
• Cookie, a Major Mitchell's Cockatoo resident at Brookfield Zoo, Illinois, USA is the oldest member of his species in captivity, at a verified age of 79, as of June 2012.
• The oldest living horse on record was a miniature horse affected by dwarfism named Angel who lived with the Horse Protection Society of North Carolina and lived to be over 50.