Oldest living creatures on earth...?

Scientists have looked into the eyes of rare bowhead whales and learned that some of them can outlive humans by generations—with at least one male pushing 200 years old.

A new study has concluded that the red sea urchin, a small spiny invertebrate that lives in shallow coastal waters, is among the longest living animals on Earth - they can live to be 100 years old, and some may reach 200 years or more in good health with few signs of age.

Harriet, a resident tortoise at the Australia zoo in Queensland, was apocryphally thought to have been brought to England by Charles Darwin aboard the Beagle. Harriet died on June 23, 2006, just shy of her 176th birthday.

Well, as far as I know, the giant tortoise that you mentioned lives the longest. About 150-180 years in captivity.

If I remember correctly, Turkey Buzzards can also live to be quite old, perhaps somewhere around 110 years of age.

When I first read your question, but not the details, I was thinking you were going to ask about living fossils. These are animals/fish/etc. that have changed very little over incredible time spans.

One such example is the Coelacanth. A fish that was thought to have become extinct in the Cretaceous period (I.e. about 100 million years ago, when Dinosaurs were still around).

Man were they surprised when one was fished up off the coast of Africa in 1938. They've found several since then.

The oldest living creature on earth has been found inside an ancient underground deposit in Texas, and as John Stewart reports, scientists claim that the 250 million year old bacterium is evidence that life exists in other parts of the universe.

The bug was found over 500 metres underground, locked inside a salt crystal beneath a waste plant in New Mexico. Scientists have been able to revive the bacteria after being suspended in salt for over 250 million years.

It's believed the bacteria may have originally lived in the Dead Sea millions of years before the dinosaur age.

Doctor Frank Fish from the University of Westchester in Pennsylvania says the bacteria is the oldest living creature on earth.

The investigators were able to isolate either an inactive cell or the spores of a cell of this bacteria and then were able to culture it and get it to grow.

What was happening around 250 million years ago when this bacteria was locked inside that crystal?

It was a time in which reptiles were essentially just starting to really come into their own, predating dinosaurs. At this time Australia was not an island continent, it was actually a part of this large land mass.

It suggest that bacteria could survive inside other rock forms like meteorites!

according to guiness world records. HER skin is wrinkled and she's carrying a few extra pounds, but there's still a twinkle in the old girl's eyes. In fact she's in uncommonly good shape for someone who was born before Victoria came to the throne. Harriet, a giant Galapagos Land tortoise and the world's oldest living creature, celebrates her 175th birthday on November 15. Experts at her home in Australia Zoo, Brisbane, Queensland, reckon she will still be going strong in another 20 years. The story really begins in 1835, when Harriet was just five and about the size of a dinner plate. She was discovered by Charles Darwin when he landed at the Galapagos archipelago. And DNA analysis shows she is almost certainly from Santa Cruz island in the Galapagos while the Beagle's tortoises were taken from Espanola, Santa Maria and San Salvador respectively.

i saw that article on that alaskan rockfish as well. i know some of the giant tortoises can live over a hundred years for sure. there was one last year, called harriet, who died at age 176. she was thought to have been one of 3 tortoises brought by charles darwin from the galapogos islands to australia, which is pretty damn cool.

Perhaps the Icelandic Cyprine, said to live up to 374 yrs. It's a Mollusk....so basically a giant underwater pillbug with pretty tough armor.

Sharks

I wasn't sure so I checked. It's the Madagascar tortoise which can live to be 188 years. I thought it was an elephant!!

oldest creatures living on earth r crocodiles sharks

coca roach is one of the longest living animals with crocodiles and turtles