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In Real Life, some species of tree can live for thousands of years. The oldest known tree on Earth is Methuselah, which is estimated at 4,841 years old. To put it into perspective, it predates almost all but the very oldest surviving written records, it predates almost all of the surviving religions, and (barely) predates the construction of the pyramids. Before Methuselah claimed the title, Prometheus was the world's oldest tree, at over 5,000 years old, until it was chopped down in 1964. As a protective measure, Methuselah's exact location has not been revealed to the public. The most bizarre part is, Methuselah is still fruitful, producing viable seeds each season.
- At least one other tree in Methuselah's grove has been found to be older, but its exact location was never revealed for the exact same reason.
- Clonal colonies of aspen trees, coral polyps, and fungal mycelia can potentially live as long if not longer, if the deaths of individual trees/polyps/patches are disregarded and the lifespan of the colony as a whole is considered. Some networks of fungal strands are thought to date back to the end of the last Ice Age, when the forests with which they share a symbiosis first became established. One such plant, Pando, the ''Trembling Giant'', dates back 80,000 years.
- King Clone, the creosote bush that's estimated at over 11,000 years old.
- There was a ginkgo tree in Kamakura (at the Hachimanguu Shrine) that was over 2,000 years old. The tree was uprooted and destroyed in a storm in March, 2010.
- Another tree, also named Methusaleh, spent nearly 2,000 years as a seed before it was planted and grew, to the astonishment of the botanists studying it. Why such a big deal? It was the last surviving specimen of Israeli Date Palm, which was previously thought to be extinct.
Although they're very poorly studied, it's been estimated from their growth rates and metabolism that blue whales can live well into their third century.
- At least one bowhead whale was killed recently that was found to have part of a harpoon from the 1800s embedded in its body.
- Many sea creatures can live a very long time thanks to their slow metabolic rates.
Some claim the jellyfish Turritopsis nutricula is essentially immortal. After reaching adulthood and reproducing the jellies can then revert to childhood and do it all over again. So far, no one really knows how many cycles they can go through; theoretically, an endless amount.
Some species of turtle can live for more than a century, and there are claims of twice that.
- Same goes with the tuatara, a reptile from New Zealand.
The oldest surviving bacteria are 250 million years old. (Although they've been frozen their whole lives.)
- If one considers the two bacteria that result from a bacteria dividing to be the same bacteria, all bacteria on Earth date back to almost the beginning of life.
Due to a quirk of their genetics, lobsters cannot die of old age. As they age, they just grow larger and larger. Being too large is a serious disadvantage when it comes to competing for food supplies against other, tougher predators, so few lobsters live past 15 years. Theoretically, though, there could be centuries-old gigantic lobsters scuttling about on the bottom of the ocean floor.
- Saying that lobsters cannot die of old age is not true. Due to the Square/Cube Law, it'll eventually reach a size where it can no longer function properly.
- Deep-sea tubeworms about methane "cold seeps" have been calculated to live for more than 200 years, based on their glacially-slow metabolism and the time it takes them to build up the structure of their tubes.
There's a potted cycad in Kew Gardens that's older than American Independence.
Undersea bacteria living in seafloor sediments have rates of division so slow they divide once 1000 years or more.

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