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The Top 10 Oldest Living Things on Earth

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You could probably nitpick some of these life forms within a million years here, a million years there... but the fact remains that these animals have been around a LONG @#$% time. They've achieved apparent perfection in their environment. Millennia have passed and they keep on keeping on. Sure, a tail might shorten, an extra tentacle might grow, or a more streamlined coat of armor.... but, like that guy you know with the haircut he's had since high school, these animals have asked themselves the question: why change it if it's working? These are the oldest living things on the planet, and they just might still be here long after we are nothing more than fossils found buried in a pile of styrofoam take-out boxes.
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    Cyanobacteria

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    2.8 billion years

    Cyanobacteria are considered to be among the first life forms on Earth. The first ones lived on sulfates and methane that was abundant in Earth's early atmosphere. Today's cyanobacteria are practically identical to the originals. They have survived every major extinction event including the Permian extinction that killed 90 percent of the species at that time.
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  1. Madelene Hellner
    The Top 10 Oldest Living Things on Earth at 12/01/2012 2:30 AM
    this concerns oldest species on earth, right?
  2. Nenita Golds
    The Top 10 Oldest Living Things on Earth at 7/09/2012 4:30 AM
    thanks for touching on oldest animal on earth.
  3. Josh
    The Top 10 Oldest Living Things on Earth at 2/20/2012 5:30 AM
    90% would be wrong is should be 84% of the creatures or again Land And Most top to middle water fish / Sharks Go down 350+ feet into the black depth and see how much more wild life has been there for at least another 650+ million years. Also if you go down in A sub and you have no lights you will go blind within a few weeks due to you can't see our eyes are not made for Darkness or shall i say pitch black you can't adapt to it your eyes need a little bit of light to see. there are sharks that have seen and are still alive i little after or before the horse shoe crab was found i forget.
  4. Triopsman
    The Top 10 Oldest Living Things on Earth at 6/19/2011 7:32 AM
    The horseshoe shrimp's proper name is actually Triops cancriformis
  5. Vinnie
    The Top 10 Oldest Living Things on Earth at 9/15/2010 10:00 AM
    Interesting list. Thanks. Where would the Wollemi Pine rate? There was a lot of fuss about it when it was rediscovered?

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