WILD BIRD: About 68 yearsWisdom , the world's oldest confirmed bird in the wild, turned at least 68 this year. PLANTED TREE: Approximately 2,300 yearsThe sacred Bodhi tree at Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Temple in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. SINGLE TREE: Approximately 5,000 yearsMethuselah, a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, stands at the ripe old age of about 5,000, making it the oldest known non-cloned organism on Earth. SEA FOREST: Approximately 200,000 yearsA sprawling sea grass meadow ten miles long near Spain ranks as the oldest known single organism on Earth, according to geneticists. But a patch near the island of Formentera, self-cloned like Pando, stands out for its age, estimated at 200,000 years.

Source: CNN November 28, 2019 14:26 UTC