Originally posted by Andronian
If you take the info in the OP then I would say cock roaches would be older by about 300 million years.
But the thing with that is the species as a whole has been around a very long time and will no doubt be around for a very long time as well. But I
don't think we know of any individual cockroach that has actually lived that long....
The average life span of a cockroach ( it defers a bit between type of cockroach) is 1-2 years. There are probably some that have lived longer than
that, but none that have lived 300 million years, as far as I know.
Also, I hope I understood what you were saying, correctly( and I very well may have misunderstood). If I did mistake what you said, I do apologize
humbly.
I determine the oldest living creature as an individual...not a cloned organism.
Yeah, I agree with you on that. It almost seems like cheating to count organisms that reproduce asexually/cloned organisms. At least to
me.
edit on 7-2-2012 by gimme_some_truth because: (no reason given)