9,500 year old Clonal SprucePhotographer Rachel Sussman travels the world taking pictures of organisms that have been alive for thousands of years — from trees and bushes to lichen and moss - and even bacteria that has survived over 400,000 years.
Welwitschia Mirabilis, 2,000 years old
Siberian Actinobacteria, about 400,000 years old
More information about the organisms, the project, and her travels is available at Sussman's blog and The Long Now Foundation blog .
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4 comments:
Thanks for sharing this information. Very interesting.
So what exactly is that second photo?
Hard to believe these things have been around so long. Amazing.
The second photo is of a plant that only grows in the Namib Desert of Namibia and Angola in Africa. It absorbs water through its leaves. And is considered a living fossil. :0)
cool...I love learning new things.......
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