What is the oldest creature still living?

Answer 1

Deep-sea corals are the oldest living animals with a skeleton in the seas, claims new research that found a 4,265-year-old coral species off the coast of Hawaii.

Deep-sea corals, which are threatened by climate change and pollution like shallow water corals are, grow on seamounts (mountains rising from the seafloor that don't reach the ocean's surface) and continental margins at depths of about 1,000 to 10,000 feet (300 to 3,000 meters).

These corals play host to many other marine organisms, and are hotspots of ocean biodiversity. The largest coral reef system in the world is the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Big reefs are also found in the Red Sea, along the coast of Mexico and Belize, the Bahamas and the Maldives.

Samples of two species examined in the study, gold coral (Gerardia sp.) and deep-water black coral (Leiopathes sp.), were gathered from off the coast of Hawaii with submersibles.

Answer 2

The oldest creature currently on earth is the cockroach which has remained on the earth for 300 million years.

Answer 3

The oldest thing on earth is plankton.It's been around from the start of time.

Answer 4

The largest animal in the world is a Blue whale they can be as big as a school and the longest Blue whale found was a female she was about 98.6 km

Answer 5

The bristlecone pine

Answer 6

Sammy the tortouise