Apparently glass sponges are the longest lived animals and live for maybe around 15,000 years
@dpiponi - wow! What's their trick?
@johncarlosbaez I bet they don’t drink or smoke and have extended periods when they don’t look at social media
@dpiponi - Oh. I was wondering if like ordinary sponges they're colonies of individual somewhat independent cells that may have a shorter life span than the collective.
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@dpiponi Interesting! I had read the claim previously that bristlecone pines were the oldest non-clonal organisms, but the oldest of them is just under 5000 years old, so I had a similar thought as @johncarlosbaez
