What Is The Oldest Thing? | Answers With Joe

I never really got the point of what the oldest thing is. I mean we’re all made of matter that was created in the big bang

You mentioned the oldest animal as a tortoise, but that's not strictly correct. Jonathan was the oldest known land animal.
Bowhead whales can live for over 200 years, the longest-lived mammals yet known. Greenland sharks can live for more than 500 years. 500! And then there are some clams that can live for over 500 years, as well. One still living specimen was determined to be 507 years old. What that thing was born, Magellan was still on his famous first planetary circumnavigation voyage. The protestant reformation was just starting and Hernan Cortes was destroying the Aztecs.
That's a long ass time ago.

Only in America such a tree would be cut down 😀

I'm kind of a new viewer and have been watching some of these older videos (you should pick up the podcasts again, btw, but I like longer content, so maybe that's just me). Anyway, an article from Popular Science in 2024 spoke of living microbes discovered in a rock that are two billion years old.

“You don’t look a day over 12 million” 😂

6:34 "cLiMAte cHaNGe" 🤡

German title???

Also no mention of the Greenland shark??

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I thought the oldest living animal thing was Greenland sharks and live to about 500 years. Or is that a myth?

"Nothing before that"
That we know of.

In Japan and Italy there has been a lot of pension fraud. This leads to people who are decades older on paper than biological age. So instead of collecting pension at 65, they fake birth certificates and start collecting at 45 years old and add 20 years to their age.

Your mom

Hi Joe. Have you heard of the King’s Holly scrub? I read somewhere that it might be 43K years old.

3:04 i dont want to break that record. Im 40 now….when people ask me where I see myself at 60, i usually say "hopefully, by that point, I'll be dead for 5 years".

……i….might change my opinion as i get closer to that age. we'll see. 😂