What Animal Lives the Longest Amount of Time on Average
What Animal Lives the Longest Amount of Time on Average Ever wondered which animals live the longest? Or how quondam the oldest creature is? Believe it or not, there are sharks live today that were around when William Shakespeare was writing his best works (more 400 years agone)! In fact, there are a number of species with lifespans that put the oldest humans to shame. Below we listing the 12 vertebrate animals that live the longest, with lifespans of anywhere up to 500 years. Nosotros've decided to wait at vertebrates only for this article, only there are a number of other forms of life on globe – especially microorganisms, and sponges – that have been proven to live for thousands, or even millions of years. For example, some endoliths (microorganisms that live inside rock, coral and beast shells), have extremely long lifespans, metabolizing slowly with a generation fourth dimension of around 10,000 years. And in July 2