What Is the Longest-Living Animal?
In short: Three longevity records that cannot share one list: a clam from Icelandic waters aged at 507 years, Greenland sharks estimated by eye-lens radiocarbon with a wide margin, and a 4,265-year-old black coral colony.
A 1:38 short film in the series “Nature: How Long Can It Live?”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science); research article by Christopher Turbill and Thomas Ruf, published 6 August 2010, “Senescence Is More Important in the Natural Lives of Long- Than Short-Lived Mammals”; Bangor University (School of Ocean Sciences), news release published 14 November 2013, “Clam found to be over 500 years old | News and Events”; NOAA Institutional Repository (paper by Hemeon et al., University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center and Virginia Institute of Marine…, “Attainability of accurate age frequencies for ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) using large datasets: protocol, reader precision, and error assessment”; SAGE Publications (The Holocene, 2006; Scourse et al.), PDF hosted by the University of St Andrews, “scourse%20et%20al%202006.pdf”; University of Oxford Research Archive (ORA). This is the authors' revised manuscript, dated 27 May 2016, by Julius Nielsen et al. (University of Copenhagen, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, …, “maintext_final27maj”; Indiana University Libraries (IUScholarWorks repository), hosting Nielsen et al., 'Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus)', issued 2016-0…, “Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus)”; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), via PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine), “Extreme longevity in proteinaceous deep-sea corals”; NOAA Ocean Exploration (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), feature by Tina N. Molodtsova, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, published June 22, 2019, “Dive 02: The Mighty Black Coral - NOAA Ocean Exploration”.
Sources used in this film
- PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science); research article by Christopher Turbill and Thomas Ruf, published 6 August 2010 — Senescence Is More Important in the Natural Lives of Long- Than Short-Lived Mammals · View →
- Bangor University (School of Ocean Sciences), news release published 14 November 2013 — Clam found to be over 500 years old | News and Events · View →
- NOAA Institutional Repository (paper by Hemeon et al., University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center and Virginia Institute of Marine… — Attainability of accurate age frequencies for ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) using large datasets: protocol, reader precision, and error assessment · View →
- SAGE Publications (The Holocene, 2006; Scourse et al.), PDF hosted by the University of St Andrews — scourse%20et%20al%202006.pdf · View →
- University of Oxford Research Archive (ORA). This is the authors' revised manuscript, dated 27 May 2016, by Julius Nielsen et al. (University of Copenhagen, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, … — maintext_final27maj · View →
- Indiana University Libraries (IUScholarWorks repository), hosting Nielsen et al., 'Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus)', issued 2016-0… — Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) · View →
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), via PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine) — Extreme longevity in proteinaceous deep-sea corals · View →
- NOAA Ocean Exploration (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), feature by Tina N. Molodtsova, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, published June 22, 2019 — Dive 02: The Mighty Black Coral - NOAA Ocean Exploration · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science); research article by Christopher Turbill and Thomas Ruf, published 6 August 2010: Senescence Is More Important in the Natural Lives of Long- Than Short-Lived Mammals
- Also: Bangor University (School of Ocean Sciences), news archive item dated 14 November 2013: Clam found to be over 500 years old | News and Events
- Also: NOAA Institutional Repository (paper by Hemeon et al., Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, University of Southern Mississipp: Attainability of accurate age frequencies for ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) using large datasets: protocol, reader precision, and error assessment
- Also: SAGE Publications (The Holocene, 2006; Scourse et al.), PDF hosted by the University of St Andrews: scourse%20et%20al%202006.pdf
- Also: Oxford University Research Archive (ORA), University of Oxford. This is the revised author manuscript dated 27 May 2016 : maintext_final27maj
- Also: Indiana University Libraries (IUScholarWorks repository), hosting the August 2016 article by Nielsen, Hedelholm, Heineme: Eye lens radiocarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus)
- Also: PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), via PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine): Extreme longevity in proteinaceous deep-sea corals
- Also: NOAA Ocean Exploration (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), feature by Tina N. Molodtsova, Shirshov Instit: Dive 02: The Mighty Black Coral - NOAA Ocean Exploration
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