The nature of our planet is governed by its natural rules and conditions.
Animals arrive on this planet at a certain time.
When that time was up, they died naturally.
There are many animals on this earth that live for hundreds of years, and there are
many animals that die within minutes of birth.
In today's episode, we will see the top 10 longest living animals on earth.
Macaws are a group of New World parrots that are long-tailed and often colorful.
They are popular in aviculture or as companion parrots, although there are conservation concerns
about several species in the wild.
This type of bird is a long-living animal.
Most Macaw species can live up to 60-70 years old, and they certainly take the prize as
the longest living bird species on this earth.
Most Macaw species are now extinct or endangered for ecological change.
The African elephant is a genus comprising two living elephant species, the African bush
elephant and the smaller African forest elephant.
Both are social herbivores with grey skin but differ in the size and color of their
tusks and in the shape and size of their ears and skulls.
They usually live for around 70-80 years, with older members overshooting this age by
decades.
African elephants have grey folded skin up to 30 millimeters thick that is covered with
sparse, bristled dark-brown to black hair.
The Long Finned Eel is a species of freshwater eel that is endemic to New Zealand.
It is the largest freshwater eel in New Zealand and the only endemic species.
Longfin eels are long-lived, migrating to the Pacific Ocean near Tonga to breed at the
end of their lives.
They are good climbers as juveniles and so are found in streams and lakes a long way
inland.
These eels are capable of living for up to 90-100 years, which is incredible considering
that they live in harsh environments in Australia and New Zealand.
The Galápagos giant tortoise complex is a species complex of 15 very large tortoise
species in the genus Chelonoidis.
They are the largest living species of tortoise, with some modern Galápagos tortoises weighing
up to 417 kilograms.
Gentle giants of the reptile world often live to more than 100-110 years old.
They are extremely well known due to their unique shape and size.
The oldest recorded Galapagos Tortoise died at 152 years old.
The red sea urchin is a sea urchin found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean from Alaska
to Baja California.
It lives in shallow waters from the low tide line to greater than 280 meters deep, and
it is typically found on rocky shores sheltered from extreme wave action in areas, where kelp
is available.
Red sea urchins are believed to be almost immortal, and they are known to live for over
200 to 210 years with no signs of aging.
A sea urchin's spherical body is completely covered by sharp spines.
Koi is an informal name for the colored variants of ornamental purposes.
There are many varieties of ornamental koi, originating from breeding that began in Niigata,
Japan in the early 19th century.
Several varieties are recognized by the Japanese, distinguished by coloration, patterning, and
scalation.
Although most koi only live for a modest 25 to 30 years, they have been known to reach
ages up to 200 years old.
A study was conducted on a famous Japanese koi that died in 1977.
The bowhead whale is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and the
only living representative of the genus Balaena.
Bowheads have the largest mouth of any animal representing almost one-third of the length
of the body, the longest baleen plates with a maximum length of 4 meters or 13 feet, and
maybe the longest-lived mammals, with the ability to reach an age of more than 200 to
300 years.
It isn’t uncommon to recover centuries-old harpoon heads from dead whales.
The Greenland shark is a large shark of the family Somniosidae, closely related to the
Pacific and southern sleeper sharks.
The distribution of this species is mostly restricted to the waters of the North Atlantic
Ocean and the Arctic Ocean.
The Greenland shark has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species estimated
to be between 250 and 500 years, and it is among the largest extant species of shark.
It is a generalist feeder, consuming a variety of available foods.
The ocean quahog is a species of edible clam.
This species is native to the North Atlantic Ocean, and it is harvested commercially as
a food source.
They grow to sizes exceeding 50 millimeters or 2 inches shell height.
Many specimens of the shellfish have been collected that was over 400 years old.
An individual specimen was reported to have lived 507 years old.
It was collected during a scientific expedition and may have lived even longer if left alone.
Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing
tentacles, although a few are anchored to the seabed by stalks rather than being mobile.
Jellyfish are found all over the world, from surface waters to the deep sea.
Scyphozoans are exclusively marine, but some hydrozoans with a similar appearance live
in freshwater.
It is an immortal animal because of its ability under certain circumstances to transform from
medusa back to the polyp stage.
If at any stage immortal jellyfish experience injury or stress from changes in their environment,
they can go backward to the polyp stage and start again.