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Title: oldest known living organism may be as old as homo sapiens
Post by: Too Few Lions on February 29, 2012, 12:42:57 AM

Apparently Mediterranean sea grass is the longest living organism known, it's believed that a meadow off the Balearic island of Formentera may be up to 200,000 years old!

http://www.huliq.com/12092/oldest-living-thing-discovered-mediterranean-sea

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Post by: Ali on February 29, 2012, 01:48:11 AM

That's amazing!

Title: Re: oldest known living organism may be as old as homo sapiens
Post by: xSilverPhinx on February 29, 2012, 04:27:08 AM

Whoa O_o

That's so cool, that thing was there when Homo sapiens were competing with the Neanderthals...seems like only yesterday. ;)

Title: Re: oldest known living organism may be as old as homo sapiens
Post by: Tank on February 29, 2012, 06:42:46 PM

This really is quite an amazing story!

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Post by: MariaEvri on March 03, 2012, 02:39:07 PM

I see this sea grass a lot while Im snorkelin and scuba diving
more respect now!

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