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> Already known, Sequoias at 3,000 years, Bristlecone pines at 4,000 years and deep-sea worms are now found to be perhaps 1,000 years old:
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> https://www.newscientist.com/article/2141387-giant-deep-sea-worms-may-live-to-be-1000-years-old-or-more/
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> "These tube worms live between 1000 and 3300 metres below sea level in aggregations from five to more than 200 individuals around cold seeps. This environment also provides a habitat for brittlestars, shrimps, crabs, mussels, clams, snails, limpets and a huge variety of smaller species of worms.
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> “The tube worms look like oversized plastic straws with a delicate pink flower at the end when the animal extends its petal-like plume – a gill-like organ for gas exchange – out of the top of its tube,” says Durkin. They can measure more than 1.5 metres, and feed through a symbiotic relationship they form with bacteria that thrive in these seeps.
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> "Researchers fed real-life data into the model by looking at how much worms of different sizes grew over a single year. This served to reveal how fast they grow at varying stages of their lives, Durkin explains.
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> “'Then we can use that data to simulate tube worms growing over time to find out how many years it would take these animals to reach a particular size,” she says.
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> "According to the model, some of the tube worms have been around for hundreds of years – with some maybe even thousands of years old. It is hard to put an upper limit on their age, because they grow more slowly as they get older.
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> “There may indeed be large E. laminata over 1000 years old in nature, but given our research we are more confident reporting a lifespan of at least 250 to 300 years,” says Durkin.
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> "This suggests that the tube worms are the second-longest-living non-colonial species ever found in the depths of the ocean – the deep-sea clam Arctica islandica can live for 500 years or more. Colony-forming animals, including some corals, are estimated to live for over 4000 years.
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> “'It’s possible that new record-breaking lifespans will be discovered in the deep sea, since we are finding new species and new habitats almost every time we send down a submersible,” says Durkin."
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> Comment: The bush of life shows that the aging clock in each type of life is wildly different. The control is unknown. If found could humans control their own aging?