What is the maximum longevity of living beings?

Human beings can live a little more than 100 years, in fact, overcoming the century is already an achievement, as was the case of the French woman Jeanne Calmet, who reached a whopping 122 years. However, we are by no means the most long-lived beings on Earth. The oldest organism on the planet is a 250-million-year-old bacterium that survived "buried" in a salt crystal.

Plants are much longer-lived than animals. In the list of venerable earthly elders is the Greenland shark which have the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species (estimated to be between 300–500 years), compared to the 5,000 reached by the Pinus longaeva. Other vegetables that win a prize for longevity are the Californian sequoia, with 4,000 years, and the olive tree, with 1,500.

But there are more facts on this list: the queen termite, a tiny animal, has turned 50, five years younger than the giant salamander from Japan.


 LONG-LIVED VEGETABLES
  • California Pinus longaeva - 5,000 years
  • Baobab of Africa -4.000
  • California Giant Sequoia - 4,000
  • Sicilian Chestnut - 3,000 years old
  • Larice of Lombardy - 2,200 years
  • Welwitschia mirabilis of Namibia - 2,000 years
  • Spanish Yew - 1,600 years old
  • Olive tree of Spain - 1.500 years
  • Ginkgo biloba from Tibet - 1,000 years
  • Drago of Spain - 900 years


 LONG-LIVED ANIMALS
  • Greenland shark - 500 years old
  • Greenland whale - 210 years old
  • Homo sapiens - 122 years old
  • Hermann's turtle - 120 years old
  • Asian Elephant - 110 years old
  • Sperm whale - 105 years old
  • Tuátara - 100 years old
  • Nile Crocodile - 80 years old
  • Giant Tridacna - 60 years old
  • Japan Giant Salamander - 55 years old
  • Queen Termite - 50 years old
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