Guys i really hope that you can help me with this, i remember one night it was about 2:00 in the morning and i was watching the discovery channel... i came accros a trailer for a new documentary on the bottom of the sea they said see creatures unlike you have never seen....blah blah blah...then they said some live for 300 years.


I was like waaahhhhhh 300 years, i really thought that the creature that lives the longest is the sea turtle wich almost breaks over 100 every now and then.

does anyone know what type of creature this is?

I believe it is a type of octopus or squid,although I'm not sure how they know how long it lives for,I think it is based on the size they achieve relative to other members of the spieces,I think there is somthing in wiki about this.
Hope tthat helps.

Lobster can live well over 100 years. I remember one caught a few years back was estimated to have been alive during the civil war.

i know something that lives over 300 years.........a tree, lol. no but seriously was it an animal like a lobster or something like desert skies says? or a plant like keyhole said

Lobsters can definitely live a long time...I think most, if not all, octopi and squid have quite short lifespans.

Originally posted by ATSGUY
Guys i really hope that you can help me with this, i remember one night it was about 2:00 in the morning and i was watching the discovery channel... i came accros a trailer for a new documentary on the bottom of the sea they said see creatures unlike you have never seen....blah blah blah...then they said some live for 300 years.


I was like waaahhhhhh 300 years, i really thought that the creature that lives the longest is the sea turtle wich almost breaks over 100 every now and then.

does anyone know what type of creature this is?

Giant tortasis can live for over 100 years as well.

If it's a deep sea creature, it could be any one of a large amount
of animals.

I know that, as said above turtles can live an extremely long time.
If I'm not mistaken, it was only recently the oldest turtle on record,
at 130 died.

They could be refering to waterbears/Tardigrada, there near
miscroscopic animals that can live a very long time in conditions
that no ther animals could, including hard radiation and a vaccuum.

hehe if we are all saying live over 100 years well Humans can live over 100 years too

trees
turtles
tortoises
lobsters
Greenland Right Whale (or Bowhead Whale) One individual was estimated to be 211 years old.
Blue Whale

It could be a Lobster or a Turtle or even Laviathon itself! (All joking aside)

Who knows??!?!

As far as we understand our planet, there are creatures being catalogued weekly; perhaps even daily. This means that we haven't quite gotten the whole picture of what "All that lives here". From the smallest microorganisms to the largest species of fish/mammalia etc.

I remember someone telling me an old quote: "If the word 'possible' is possible then anything is possible".

Originally posted by djohnsto77
Lobsters can definitely live a long time...I think most, if not all, octopi and squid have quite short lifespans.

Hence the size relating to a long lifespan.

There was a galapogos totois in a zoo around here that was caught by charles darwin. Anyway it died this year at age 176.

And in the near future, we humans will have the technology to live as long as all those creatures.

-Jimmy-

A Gueduck can live up to 150 years or maybe longer. Its a see creature around the Canadian and New England area. Its an odd looking creature. It has a shell and a larger sucker coming out of the shell. If Boiled right, i hear it is quite the deliciousy

[edit on 28-8-2006 by BartIV]

World's Oldest Animal Dies At Age 250

April 5, 2006 3:50 p.m. EST


Joanna Wypior - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Calcutta, India (AHN) - The world's oldest living animal, a giant tortoise, has died at a Calcutta Zoo in India. Experts believe the tortoise to have lived approximately 250 years.

The tortoise, Addwaita the Aldabra, whose Bengali name means "the one and the only", lived in the zoo since 1875.

She was once a gift for Lord Robert Clive of the East India Company.

The world's oldest documented living animal now belongs to Harriet, a 176-year-old Galapagos tortoise who currently lives at the Australian zoo, in Brisbane, Australia.

PBS did a show on tortise/turtles, according to the show, turtles only die from disease or infection. Apparently, if healthy, they could live forever.

Originally posted by iori_komei
If it's a deep sea creature, it could be any one of a large amount
of animals.

I know that, as said above turtles can live an extremely long time.
If I'm not mistaken, it was only recently the oldest turtle on record,
at 130 died.

They could be refering to waterbears/Tardigrada, there near
miscroscopic animals that can live a very long time in conditions
that no ther animals could, including hard radiation and a vaccuum.

i heard of those on animal planet arent they supposed to hibernate in extreme conditions like spavce and they can live really long in hibernation

water bears rule