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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. Endangered? by kungfugleek · · Score: 5, Interesting
    FTA:

    But Prof Duarte said that while the seagrass is one of the world's most resilient organisms, it has begun to decline due to coastal development and global warming. "If climate change continues, the outlook for this species is very bad," he said.

    But if it's 200k years old, hasn't it already survived some serious climate change?