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World’s oldest animal captured alive, on video

Deep Sea News has been following the story of the world’s oldest living animals, the deep-sea Leiopathes black corals and Gerardia gold corals from 300m…

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Worlds oldest animal aged to 4000 years

Peter Etnoyer February 18, 2008 deep coral gerardia oldest animal

Age and growth studies of deep-sea gold corals and black corals indicate these animals live between two and four millennia. Deep-sea biologists get excited about this because marine invertebrates record archives of environmental conditions in their growth rings, the same way trees do.