{"id":107174,"date":"2020-05-16T18:48:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T01:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-12-longest-living-animals-that-roam-the-earth"},"modified":"2020-05-16T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T01:48:39","slug":"the-12-longest-living-animals-that-roam-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-12-longest-living-animals-that-roam-the-earth","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Longest Living Animals That Roam the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-12-longest-living-animals-that-roam-the-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the human world, if you make it up to 90 years old or more, you\u2019re considered to have remarkable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2015\/04\/what-is-old-age\/\" target=\"_blank\">longevity<\/a>. But in the animal world, 90 years old is still considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeaverton.com\/2018\/10\/biology-virgin-ass-greenland-shark-doesnt-even-hit-sexual-maturity-until-150-years-old\/\" target=\"_blank\">a baby\u2019s age<\/a>. Some of these creatures have been around for so long that nowadays they\u2019re considered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terranature.org\/tuatara.htm\" target=\"_blank\">living fossils<\/a> since dinosaurs are their direct relatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bright Side<\/strong> is encouraging you to take a look at some creatures that have been on Earth way longer than the human species and some of them were born when the Age of Discovery had not even started. And there\u2019s a surprising bonus waiting for you at the end of the article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the human world, if you make it up to 90 years old or more, you\u2019re considered to have remarkable longevity. But in the animal world, 90 years old is still considered a baby\u2019s age. Some of these creatures have been around for so long that nowadays they\u2019re considered living fossils since dinosaurs are their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}