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Humans are among the longest living land mammals. [96] Jeanne Calment, a French woman, lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days, making her the oldest fully documented human who has ever lived. She died on August 4, 1997. [97] Jiroemon Kimura (†116 years, 54 days), a Japanese man, died on 12 June 2013.
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- Hydra: potentially immortal. Hydra is a group of small invertebrates with soft bodies that slightly resemble jellyfish and, like T. dohrnii, have the potential to live forever.
- Turritopsis dohrnii: potentially immortal. Turritopsis dohrnii is called the immortal jellyfish because it can potentially live forever. Jellyfish start life as larvae before establishing themselves on the seafloor and transforming into polyps.
- Glass sponge: 10,000+ years old. Sponges are made up of colonies of animals, similar to corals, and can also live for thousands of years. Glass sponges are among the longest-living sponges on Earth.
- Black coral: 4,000+ years old. Corals look like colorful, underwater rocks and plants, but they are actually made up of the exoskeletons of invertebrates called polyps.
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73.4 years. (life expectancy at birth, both sexes combined) Females. 76.0 years. (life expectancy at birth, females) Males. 70.8 years. (life expectancy at birth, males) Life Expectancy (Years) Life Expectancy in the World from 1955 to Present Males, Females, and Both Sexes combined Males Females Both Sexes 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 ...
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- Longest-Lived Insect: The Queen Termite (50 Years) One normally thinks of insects as living only a few days, or at most a few weeks, but if you're a particularly important bug all the rules go out the window.
- Longest-Lived Fish: The Koi (50 Years) In the wild, fish rarely live for more than a few years and even a well-cared-for goldfish will be lucky to reach the decade mark.
- Longest-Lived Bird: The Macaw (100 Years) In many ways, macaws are unnervingly similar to suburban Americans of the 1950s: these colorful parrot relatives mate for life; the females incubate the eggs (and care for the young) while the males forage for food; and they have human-like life spans, surviving for up to 60 years in the wild and 100 years in captivity.
- Longest-Lived Amphibian: The Cave Salamander (100 Years) If you were asked to identify an animal that regularly hits the century mark, the blind salamander, Proteus anguinus, would probably be close to last on your list: how can a fragile, eyeless, cave-dwelling, six-inch-long amphibian possibly survive in the wild for more than a couple of weeks?
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- Primates. (Credit: marvin8894/Shutterstock) Modern humans may be the longest living primates. The oldest verified human was a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment who lived from 1875 to 1997 — 122 years, according to the Guinness World Records.
- Greenland Sharks. (Credit: Hemming1952/CC-By-4.0/Wikimedia Commons) Greenland sharks are perhaps the oldest vertebrates on the planet. These giant fish are so old that they don’t even reach sexual maturity until they are about 150 years old.
- Whales. (Credit: Earth theater/Shutterstock) The oldest mammals also happen to live in the Arctic's chilly waters. Bowhead Whale Lifespan. Take bowhead whales, which scientists believe could live more than 200 years.
- Laysan Albatross. (Credit: Tarpan/Shutterstock) Some research shows that jogging can increase your lifespan — among humans, at least. And if the Laysan albatross is any indicator, then flying long distances should (in theory) increase the lifespan of certain winged species.
Jul 1, 2021 · They asked what the longest individual human lifespan could be anywhere in the world by the year 2100. Using Bayesian statistics, a common tool in modern statistics, the researchers estimated that the world record of 122 years almost certainly will be broken, with a strong likelihood of at least one person living to anywhere between 125 and 132 ...
The longest living Koi fish, Hanako, died in 1977 and was 226 years old. 2. Macaw. Average Life Span: 50 years. Macaws are the longest living type of parrot and are known for outliving their owners. While their average lifespan is 50 years, it is not uncommon for a Macaw to live 80 to 100 years. Macaws with blue and gold feathers tend to live ...
