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* Some species of turtle can live for more than a century, and there are claims of twice that.
* Some species of turtle can live for more than a century, and there are claims of twice that.
** Same goes with the tuatara, a reptile from New Zealand.
** Same goes with the tuatara, a reptile from New Zealand.
* [http://www.extremescience.com/OldestLivingThing.htm The oldest surviving bacteria are 250 million years old]. (Although they've been frozen their whole lives.)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100205061849/http://extremescience.com/OldestLivingThing.htm The oldest surviving bacteria are 250 million years old]. (Although they've been frozen their whole lives.)
* Due to a quirk of their genetics, lobsters cannot die of old age. As they age, they just grow larger and larger. Being too large is a serious disadvantage when it comes to competing for food supplies against other, tougher predators, so few lobsters live past 15 years. Theoretically, though, there could be [[Nightmare Fuel|centuries-old gigantic lobsters scuttling about on the bottom of the ocean floor.]]
* Due to a quirk of their genetics, lobsters cannot die of old age. As they age, they just grow larger and larger. Being too large is a serious disadvantage when it comes to competing for food supplies against other, tougher predators, so few lobsters live past 15 years. Theoretically, though, there could be [[Nightmare Fuel|centuries-old gigantic lobsters scuttling about on the bottom of the ocean floor.]]
** Deep-sea tubeworms about methane "cold seeps" have been calculated to live for more than 200 years, based on their glacially-slow metabolism and the time it takes them to build up the structure of their tubes.
** Deep-sea tubeworms about methane "cold seeps" have been calculated to live for more than 200 years, based on their glacially-slow metabolism and the time it takes them to build up the structure of their tubes.
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