“What’s the Oldest Thing Alive Today?”

Last updated on: February 20, 2017 at 11:40 pm
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“What’s the Oldest Thing Alive Today?” February 20, 2017

 

Home, sweet home.
I was born in this hospital in southern California. The fact that I was born in a hospital inescapably suggests that there were hominids before me, since some sort of tool-using organism with an opposable thumb must have built it prior to my birth.  (Public domain photo from Wikimedia Commons)

 

What’s the oldest thing alive today?

 

Contrary to popular opinion, it’s probably not me:

 

http://www.livescience.com/57941-what-is-the-oldest-living-thing.html

 

Posted from Waikoloa, Hawaii

 

 

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