Showing posts with label oldest living thing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oldest living thing. Show all posts

Monday, 14 April 2014

Earth's Most Ancient Living Things

Rachel Sussman is a photographer and traveler.For nearly a decades, she have travelled around the world to capture world's oldest living things from 2,000 year old La Llareta to 100,000 years old Sea Grass. Details of her discovery, along with a foreword by the science writer were released as a photo book.

1) Posidonia Sea Grass : 100,000 Years Old (Balearic Island, Spain)

It lives in the UNESCO-protected waterway between the islands of Ibiza and Formentera

2) Eucalyptus : 13,000 Years Old (New South Wales, Australia)

This critically endangered eucalyptus is around 13,000 years old, and one of fewer than five individuals of its kind left on the planet