Where to Find the Oldest Living Things in the World

All over the world, you can find ancient organisms that have existed for thousands, sometimes even millions, of years: living testaments of endurance and adaptation amidst changing climates and environmental degradation. Many of these organisms are trees—especially, massive, hulking ones whose branches burrow deep and widespread under the Earth. Others are clonal colonies: intricately designed natural systems in which an organism copies itself ad infinitum. There are also the fungi, whose decentralized, underground networks stretch perpetually outward, and the deep-sea creatures whose murky re

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