Excluding God, no offense, The universe. On the Earth, scientists have found a tree that they estimate to be 9550 years old. See the related link for more information.
sea grass
As the oldest animal, no.As the oldest thing, no.
There is no "oldest non-living thing" unless you consider a virus to be non-living, and their evolution cannot be reliably determined. The oldest living things are animals such as tortoises, lobsters, clams and mussels. Colonies of organisms such as funguses, sponges, coral, and aspen trees live a long time because they create or clone new individuals. (see the related questions)
probacteria
There is no such thing as "the oldest living baby". The oldest person to have ever lived was Jeanne Louise Calment. She lived for 122 years & 164 days from February 21st 1875 to August 04th 1997.
If it remains unfertilised it is non living. However at the start of its existence it holds the potential to become part of a living thing.
All animals are living things, there is no problem there. The problem with the definitions of 'life' and 'living thing' first arises with the viruses as they: # do not manipulate energy to perpetuate their own existence # do not have everything within themselves to perform their functional existence but rely on the functional organs of a host to complete them. Problems with the definition gets even harder with the prions as they do not even have DNA or RNA to define them but are merely perpetuating proteins maintained within another living organism. (mad cow deases, Scrapies, etc.) Crystals meet some of the definitions of a living thing as they untilize energy in the form of heat and chemiical concentrations to grow and reproduce (under the right conditions), and carry within themselves all the information necessary to perpetuate their particular existence, but nobody seriously considers them to be a living thing.
If it remains unfertilised it is non living. However at the start of its existence it holds the potential to become part of a living thing.
If it remains unfertilised it is non living. However at the start of its existence it holds the potential to become part of a living thing.
My vote goes to the sponges.
platypus
lycophytes