Before you Google it ......

[gasbanni]

What do think the oldest living thing in the world is and how old, it's not a competition don't post your google answers ! They're not relevant, just suprising how old and what it is.

Which brings us to 6522.

 

[HawkEye244]

Prostitution ?

 

[durhamplumber]

Bacteria,3 billion years.

 

[durhamplumber]

Prostitution ?

Quite sure that is not a living thing!

 

[HawkEye244]

Quite sure that is not a living thing!

Depends on your definition of ''thing'' and of ''oldest.''

Is bacteria a ''thing'' is it ?

 

[EddieM]

bristlecone pine approx 4000 years old ?

 

[EddieM]

or is it a fungus that is essentially immortal ?

 

[Notch7]

I heard about that shark 400 years old....

Trees are quite old

And tardigrades -I not sure they live all that long, toughest creature on earth though can survive radiation and space travel.

 

[Notch7]

I expect JohnD will be along to say Tory voters

 

[crystal ball]

Dick van Dyke

 

[durhamplumber]

Depends on your definition of ''thing'' and of ''oldest.''

Is bacteria a ''thing'' is it ?

More to do with "living".Prostitution is not living

 

[Ihavenojob]

Greenland shark

 

[Ihavenojob]

or is it a fungus that is essentially immortal ?

They're like Triggers broom.Though thinking about it, most living things are.

 

[gasbanni]

Well well we have a cheat on here he just had to Google it and another one that had to Google it too !

 

[EddieM]

Well well we have a cheat on here he just had to Google it and another one that had to Google it too !

who?