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Australian Scientists Discover 'Oldest Living Thing On Earth'

Posted by timothy on from the sorry-dad's-television dept.

New submitter offsafely writes "Scientists in Australia have discovered the oldest living life-form to date: a small patch of Ancient Seagrass, dated through DNA sequencing at 200,000 years old." Says the linked article: "This is far older than the current known oldest species, a Tasmanian plant that is believed to be 43,000 years old." What I want to know is, How does it taste?

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  1. Ssshh , don't mention that! by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Much as I tend to agree with the global warming consensus , that particular type of sentence does unfortunately have a habit of appearing in a lot of enviromental/biological pieces these days. It seems to be almost a standard issue cut and paste warning that [insert species here] will be affected by climate change unless we DoSomethingNow(tm). And in so doing devalues any serious debate.

  2. Has a flavor by bughunter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How does it taste?

    Well, if nothing's eaten it in 200ky, then it must taste pretty crappy.

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