Our younger brothers - centenarians Bashny.Net

Anyone who has a cat, a dog or a fish, understand that these animals will live much less than their owner.
It turns out that there are animals - centenarians, which is not that a person could survive, but some of them are experiencing even civilization.
It sounds a bit fantastic, but really, it is.
By the way, this article will not be a question of Raven or elephants - there are animals who live longer.





Red sea urchin

This type of animals found only in the Pacific Ocean, mostly on the west coast of North America. They live at depths of up to 90 meters, and avoid very much troubled areas with a strong wave formation. Basically, they live in one place, being attached to the ocean floor and filtering their food from the water. So they sit centuries ... Several famous individuals have lived for over 200 years. And who knows how much they still survive.



Turtles

Generally considered the most long-lived turtles organisms on Earth. The example is the turtle Harriet, Galapagos tortoise, who died of heart failure in June 2006. Almost all her life she spent in the zoo. So, this turtle has brought to Europe by Charles Darwin during the voyage on the ship the Beagle. Turtle and I survived it, and many other well-known scholars, died at the age of 250 years, in March 2006.



Glycineris generosa

This sedobnoe clam can live up to 160 years (at least, that is how much the most famous living scientist instance that observations are made). So, these molluscs can grow up to 1 meter in length!



Gutter

Not only do these reptiles - dinosaurs contemporaries themselves (this species has not changed for 200 years), so they also live for hundreds of years. It is known that the age of some representatives of this species reaches 200 years. Can you imagine how many have seen in my lifetime tuatara. That would really get to the genetic memory, right? You could watch those same Mesozoic dinosaurs ...



Lamellibrachia

Cute "flowers" that you see in the picture, in fact are the worms that build for themselves calcareous tubes. There they hide in case of danger. It seems to be fragile organisms that can not live a long time, right? In fact, the individual members of this kind can live 250 years or more.



Bowhead Whale

Giant of the Arctic Ocean, the bowhead whale is the largest mammal North. In addition, this type of survivor and even whales - scientists know bowhead whale, which is already 211 years. And the die is not going to.



Koi

Cute fish, which are specially bred special breed of carp. Koi - quite expensive, and the cost of a single fish can reach a hundred dollars. But, in addition, they are also known, and the ability to live a long, long time. The oldest in the history of koi, named Hanák, has died at the age of 226 years (!) July 7, 1977.



Ocean Quahog

Another representative of molluscs, who also lives in the waters of the Arctic. So, you have no idea how many can live separately taken Quahog. What do you think? One hundred years? Two hundred? No, scientists thought that the age of many of the colony of Quahog clams on the ocean floor sostavlet 400 (!) Years.



Antarctic sponge

It is generally survivor of centenarians. Perhaps because of the low temperatures, these sponges are growing very slowly. Metabolism at them too slow, and all this leads to the fact that most "elderly" sponge, the scientists found, lived for fifteen hundred years. Can you imagine how much she has seen in my lifetime.

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