Oldest Living Things in The World
September 29th, 02009 by Kevin Kelly
Besides the canonical Bristlecone Pine, there are many other organism on earth that will outlive you. Photographer Rachel Sussman has been traveling around the world to find and photograph them. I’m surprised by the number and variety of long-lived organisms. I very much like that she includes the low lifes — lichen and so forth. You can keep up with her investigations with her intelligent blog.
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Posted on September 30th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Very cool. I’ve long imagined a lichen chase sequence within a realistically-paced natural history film. Our television series SUNRISE EARTH is paced too quickly for such a sequence, regretfully.