The oldest living animal was a clam that was found at the bottom of the ocean, it was estimated to have been between 405 and 410 years old.
The oldest verifiable record of a long-living animal was the 171-year-old Harriet, a Giant Galapagos tortoise taken from the Galapagos Islands by naturalist Charles Darwin in 1835 as a personal pet during his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle. On that voyage was a young naval officer, John Clements Wickham. After studying Harriet whilst formulating his theory of evolution, Darwin handed the tortoise on to Wickham when the latter sailed for Brisbane to take up a post as police magistrate. Over the years, the tortoise was carefully tended, and in 1958, was moved to naturalist David Fleay's wildlife park on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. She was moved to Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast in 1987 where she enjoyed celebrity status until her death on 23 June 2006.
The oldest living horse on record is currently believed to be a pony named Shayne, who lived to be 51 years old. Shayne, from Australia, passed away in 2004 but holds the title for the oldest known living horse.
An animal is a living thing.
The oldest land animal is the scorpion. It lived on the Gondwana supercontinent. It is a 350 million year old fossil.
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)
The oldest cat ever recored in america was 39 she died in 2005.
As of February 2014 the dynastic clam it was believed to be the oldest living animal ever recorded. When it died in 2006 it lived for 507 years.
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As the oldest animal, no.As the oldest thing, no.
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The oldest known living apple tree is located in Beaminster, Dorset, England.
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Walking is the oldest. Riding (or being pulled by) an animal is the second oldest. The oldest mode not requiring the energy of a living creature (other than to steer) is sailing.