Some of the World's Most Interesting Ancient Organisms
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- Join us on a journey through time as we explore the world's oldest living organisms, from a 507-year-old clam to a 9,550-year-old Norway spruce. Discover their unique abilities and how they have shaped our understanding of aging and the world around us
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Kudos for not revealing Methuselah whereabouts. Even though the info is out there, the less its shared the longer the tree will hopefully be able to live.
I live in the general area.. I'm glad people don't know where it is. They'd destroy it for instagram clout.
@@bjarkiengelsson :c
@@bjarkiengelsson you're so right, sadly.
The Bristlecone Pines are really something. Those twisted, ancient trunks are fascinating.
Well now that I know it's out there, might look it up
Think Simon needs to start a nature channel, He's got one for everything else so might as well..
I mean, you're not wrong 😂
But he did. Its called side projects. Its a channel about the Nature of randomness
As some have mentioned, it was a missed opportunity not to discuss Pando, the aspen grove in Utah that genetics have shown is one creature (like the sea grass colony), and is considered one of the oldest living creatures on the planet. Unlike other clonal colonies, all of the individuals are connected into the same root system
~9000-12,000 yrs old?
About Pando : www.fs.usda.gov/detail/fishlake/home/?cid=STELPRDB5393641
Also every Aspin there are an exact genetic match to each other.
I've heard of Pando but not in age of the organism but I've heard it is the most massive single organism on Earth.
Creature was an odd choice of word haha. But pando is pretty amazing for sure
nothing holds a candle to the hibernating bacteria beneath the sea floor, some of which have been estimated at over 100 million years old
Had to pause and applaud you for not mentioning the location of the oldest tree. It's not much but it's better then adding to the problem.
Quite a few different breeds of shark are ovoviviparous, Great Whites included. They give birth to perfect miniature sharks ready to go about their business
Tiger sharks as well, little cannibal babies that eat each other in the womb
How about a video on the largest organisms on Earth like the Pando Aspen Grove in Utah? It's a 106 acre clonal colony.
It is also one of the oldest organisms on earth. Frankly should have been on this video as well considering it estimated to be around 10k years old.
Yeah, I was waiting for a mention of Pando. Especially since biologists say it is dieing.
I live about 150 miles north of Pando. I've seen it several times, it looks more distressed each time.
It's being eaten by deer that are starving. Any predators ( bear, puma, wolf, coyote, etc ) that might have kept the deer population in check have been hunted nearly to extinction because they are a nuisance to local ranchers.
Local infrastructure has also severely impacted the interconnectivity of the root system, severing it into several isolated organisms.
For it to survive, the roads need to be rerouted, the predators need to be reintroduced, and humans need to leave it alone.
But is it a SINGLE organism or a GROUP of organisms?
Pando quivers in anger at being excluded.
Fun fact: adult Greenland sharks are usually blind, or almost so. Not because of a genetic defect, but because they are prey to a parasitic copepod that latches onto their eyes early in life. Virtually every Greenland shark studied, including the ones shown in this video if you look closely, has one or more of those copepods latched onto their eyes. Fortunately for the sharks, they have excellent senses of smell and hearing; they largely scavenge when not actively hunting; and they largely inhabit deep water where light is limited anyway. So, for them, sight isn't a great loss.
Eeeewwwww... i cant unsee it!
@@run_amuk_ranch made you look! 😆
@@JohnDrummondPhoto 🤭😜 yes...yes you did...lol
I wonder if their evolution is allowed to continue if they will lose their eyes altogether or if they will develop a natural response to gid rid of the parasites
@@missmarasmenstrualmuffmunc2085 evolution does one of three things: kill off negative mutations; allow positive mutations to succeed and thrive; and, leave neutral conditions alone. Greenland sharks have had many millions of years to evolve a response to eye copepods. That they haven't, means the copepods' presence doesn't affect the sharks' ability to survive and breed. So, it's more likely there'll be no evolution of anti-copepod characteristics.
Fascinating video!! And we all thank you for not revealing the location of Methuselah! Well done Simon & team 😊🙌🏻🔥👏🏻
all old trees need to be protected!!!
it's on wikipedia. There is no way to hide that kind of information after it's been found.
7:35 - Another ancient tree species cut down to near extinction was the Kauri tree in New Zealand, as it was a high quality, very heavy wood. You still find them in older houses in New Zealand and as it is illegal to cut them down now, the ‘used’ wood is still highly prized (and thus very expensive) for making doors. It is a VERY dense and heavy wood and has amazing feel.
If you have one of these older houses with this wood, do not get builders to trick you into letting it go without paying LOTS of money for it.
Vermont was actually part of an inland sea after the last ice age! I've been out to the reef and it's amazing. Fossils of ammonites everywhere
One of the most amazing things I have ever done was travel down from the source of the Ausable River down to Lake Chaplain on the NY side. {I went to SUNy Plattsburgh "back in the day" as it were). The river begins by cutting its way through the Adirondacks, showing the most ancient fossils of life to be found anywhere, even older than the ammonites. Worth the trip. I lived in Peru, NY, and used to love my view of Vermont.
Technically the last ice age never ended, we are still in it
Had a brain failure for a moment. Misread Vermont as Voldemort and was so confused. 🤣
@WFWhitney 13:47
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Never thought i would be so emotionally devastated about the death of a clam
The original Bodhi Tree and it's seed tree in Sri Lanka are interesting. Fig/Bo Trees, the latter Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi (the great bodhi in Sanskrit I think) protected and built around in Anuradhapura with a Garden around it. Fascinating history to it. Planted in 288 BC.
Keith Richards should have been on this list.
Knew it would be a fun time hearing Simon try to say fulufjället
The redwoods that were cut down 100 years ago were so much bigger than the ones left standing. Also, there's a tree in northam Florida that was allegedly planted by Ponce De Leon.
Fulfjället is my second home basically :) I know Tjikko well. Thank you for including him in this video.
"...the feature of it's anatomy having been spent by the time scientists found it..." that's one side effect of immortality I hadn't considered before. Eesh!
Right? Hurrah, I'm immortal, but my John Thomas has been dust for hundreds of years.
Literally one of my most favorite topics that no one talks about
I wonder if Simon ever asks himself, "am I becoming a caricature of the archetypal hipster?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You should checkout the Humongous Fungus if you do More Oldest Things. Thousands of years old, covering 2000 acres, single cell wall thick, eats whole groves of trees, can’t be killed…
Not even by fire?
@@ryanbrown4053 Nope, its deep enough underground to be protected from fire. Its on timberland and they tried to kill it but failed.
@@porkcheeks that's horrifying
I love these kinds of videos, it's interesting to see the stuff of the past!
I grew up in Chazy, New York, on Lake Champlain. I would see Isle Lamotte every day and have been there numerous times, but just recently to get a closer look at the fossil reef. "Chazy" is pronounced like 'hazy', with a soft 'ch' like Champlain.
Everytime a species go extinct, I cannot help but imagine this iconic futurama quote
"Two hundred million yearsvof evolution, snuffed out...For, in the end, nature is horrific..and teach us nothing..."
No, the redwoods reach 64 meters tall in specific areas, but in other areas they're better protected and reach 110 meters
Idea for mega projects: the Sprint missile which was developed during the Cold War by the US. It accelerated so quickly that it glowed red hot from the friction with the air
This episode was filled with shenanigans! And I am here for them and the learning!!!
If you like Simon's shenanigans, I highly recommend Brain Blaze.
As a fan and as someone who is Swedish and lives in Sweden, I will say that you almost got the word Fulufjället correct lol. Sorry my English is not the best.
Love from Sweden 🇸🇪 thank you for doing us proudly!
I need an entire video of Ming just swirling over the screen with historical things in the background 😂
Also missed the oldest living known organism the oldest sea sponge on Earth. Found off Hawaii 7000m down in 2016. Dates to atleast 20,000 years old.
Another great video Simon. Thanks!
Little tip: If there`s an A with two dots, (Ä), it`s not Norwegian..
It`s close to the border though, but still..
Wow I live on the shores of Lake Champlain and didn't know that about that reef. Very interesting.
It's right in Isle La Motte! As a fellow Champlain Valley resident, I have to say it's definitely a really cool place to visit
The Adirondacks are amongst the oldest mountains of the world. When the weather warms up, take a canoe trip down the Ausable River, and stop a lot along the way to find fossils. You will.
@@daniellevalyou2227 see my comment below.
Me either ...and I spent my childhood years living in the tiny farm town of Chazy.
(it's Shay-Zee, btw, love how Simon tries the pronunciations, lol.)
Consider adding a de-esser to your audio processing - your S's are a bit harsh at times. Anyway, I love what you do, keep it up :)
Haha - my wife did aging research for Zoltan at the University of Oklahoma before we got married. That was a trip seeing him on this video.
Did they wear bubble suits and hang out in his parents’ barn?
@@talljohn5350 is it red?? Then it's not a barn! ZOLTAN!!!
I just feel bad for Greenland sharks though. They spend practically their whole lives basically blind because parasites invade their eyes and destroy them at a very young age.
I really grow to like all your channels and You overall, and I appreciate amount of content you put out, even if sometimes not everything is perfect
You know another interesting ancient organism? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
This vid was fascinating, thank you!
this channel has filled a hole in my watch schedule I never knew I had
Now that's a quality thumbnail
Easiest way to learn how to pronounce ä in Swedish, is to think of it as inbetween a to e. The same way orange is inbetween yellow to red.
Swedish got 3 extra letters, åäö, and they can all be thought of as inbetween the way letters sound in that way.
Ä is inbetween a to e.
Ö is inbetween e to o.
Å is inbetween a to o.
They're very simple to pronounce as they've only got one sound and doesn't require any tongue-twisting like other languages sometimes do.
Now, this was a very interesting posting on the longevity of lifeforms on earth, very interesting so I decided to throw a tiny tip over at the B.Blaze merch store channel. Thank you.
Very very good indeed, short to listen to whilst painting but good enough that i would stop to write this👍
Not sure if it's sadder to kill an old shark that's been around for 100s of years doing it's thing or to kill one that's only about ten.
I live 600m above sea level and where i used to live was an inland sea, tons of calcified coral still on the sides of the rivers.
They "accidently" froze a clam? Send those folks back to get another BS before they're trusted again.
If you Google Neptune grass you quickly find that one strand is not 8km. The whole bunch is 8km long. Each stand is 1.5 meters long
Very interesting
A rare oasis of intelligent, informative and beautifully presented, well researched content by an excellent narrator in a desert of Utube trash. From my heart - thank you
Wait until you see how many channels he has.
@@michael42093 Astonishing!
It's all quality content
@@michael42093 that’s a LOT of hard work. I wish more Utube channels were as motivated
Great!
The tree in Sweden broke of a large portion of the top a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the experts think it's dying
Magnifico
Surprised you didn’t mention the 20000-year old glass sponges.
That’s right… SpongeBob will outlive us all.
I regularly find horn coral fossils near my home in northern Utah. They come from below the blue Mississippin I believe.
Bristlecone is located in Nevada, California and Utah.
Colorado
There are some bristlecone pine 20 minutes from me in Utah. They are 2k+ years old
pretty wild for reefs to grow for so long that moving tectonic plates pushed their home out of the water.
More like this please simon
Mammals live longer the slower their heart beats, what a strange phenomena 🤔
Biggest reason is a relation to metabolism.
Over simplified is that the more it works the faster it burns out.
I love this
Sounds interesting :D
These are interesting.
1:14. Weird. I had no idea part of Rhode Island flooded underwater and had sea life there.
Really? Check out R.I. maps again while thinking about sea level rise, look at Narragansett Bay, that's kind of wet, right? I learned to swim at R.I. beaches as a toddler, which might be a useful skill as global seas rise. Also probably a good reason not to migrate to Florida at this time, at least some of R.I.'s coast is rocky and elevated. :-)
Box huckleberry, not the oldest, but one colony in Pennsylvania is thought to be 13,000 years old. One near my home is around 1500-2000 years old. A big colony was bulldozed to put in a road, gotta love human advancement.
I sympathize w/Old Tjikko, I've had that struggle too
Cheers from the, elderly, Pacific West Coast of Canada.
YA!!! I can hear you for the first time in months....
Howdy Simon, on this subject, look into the Huon Pinne, in Tasmania
Please do a biologygraphics channel this is my jammmm ❤❤❤
That tree looks like it was back in Hercules age lol
every time i hear the word anemone i hear Nemo in my head trying to say it lol
Also Black Coral (c5,000y) and Glass Sponge (c10,000y).
What I’ve learned from this video is that we are terrible at naming things.
Interesting video, although I think you missed a couple that wood have fit in here. Also... call a coral reef old is a bit like saying the inhabitants of The Pendleton apartment building in Cincinnati, OG, are 171 years old. The overall structure might be old, but not those living there.
I read Orgasms, I thought we were finally getting the Simon Whistler Kama Sutra! Imagine his silky smooth voice giving you instructions on “technique” 😂
I have a B.S in Biochem/Biophys from SUNY at Plattsburgh, NY. Nø disrespect intended, Simon, but "Chazy" is pronounced like "Shay Sea." as if said as one word. I lived in the summers I spent there primarily by fishing in Lake Champlain. It is truly beautiful there in the Spring, Summer, and Fall. It is brutally cold in the Winter. (I live in Arizona now... ). 'Nuff said.
Yay, another person who knows how to say Chazy! (I spent my childhood years living in the tiny farm town of Chazy. We'd have to go over to Plattsburgh to do anything.)
It’s a good video, but you forgot the aspen trees in Colorado. There is a grove of aspen that grows from one root system and dates back something like 80,000 years.
in srilanka we have an ancient sacred tree over 1000 years old
That 4000 year old tree would make a lovely bowl😉
You seemed to misspoke about the chestnut. Perhaps you meant another species for part of that segment.
This man has figured out TH-cam. You must make a whole lot..
Yeah… I totally misread the title for a good minute. I thought Simon had delved into an extra spicy side project! 😅
I came for details on Cthulu, I was disappointed too.
Stromatolites of Western Australia would be a welcome addition to this list.
One of the coolest clonal organisms is Pando.
I very much agree.
the bristle cone pine looks like the Hexxus tree from Ferngully
I guess that tree is the very definition of I'm still standing. Next time try Kryptonite.
Like most things your researchers missed the obvious, they forgot Stromatolites! Which can be found, still living, in Western Australia!
Stromatolites predate corals or any other complex life forms, they are a bacteria that come together to live in clumps, they form coal like structures.
Stromatolites were/are the organisms responsible for oxygenating the earth's atmosphere!
Seems you would've wanted to include them in your oldest living organisms?! 🤔
How long does a single stromatolite live?
Because we are talking about individual organisms life spans. Not the species as a whole lol.
@@NotSoSerious69420 Yes, I was referring to individuals. Any idea of possible age?
(Did anyone else immediately do the !Zoltan! Gesture in their head?) 2:16
You think Greenland sharks ever have flashbacks to all those naval wars in the past?
I love that one of these is just a field of undersea grass.
I love trees, and it saddens me what our species has done to them.
7:04 Never heard anyone else even _try_ to use “superannuated” in a sentence. But _correctly?_ Wow! Quite the “flex” by the Wordfinder General himself, Sir Simon the _Sibilor_ [“Whistler” in Latin].
Welwitschia mirabilis ? 500-600 yrs old on avg, with some 2000 years old. The most amazing part is that their original two leaves can last that their whole lives.
The longest-lasting living tissue of all ?
damn we have amazing tress in Northern CA
I hiked to a peak of near 10k to find the top of mountain look like so many others in the region, car size chunks of granite. On the Rock I was sitting on looked to b sea crustaceans petrified in a rock on Mt top 120 miles from the ocean
I e been to the Bristle Cones… it is a site to remember! Word to the wise.. go in late spring, early summer and no matter the weather, bring a coat!
Just another September!!
"it's in the script but..." this is why I'm team Simon whistler. youtube is suggesting a lot of similar channels but they don't have values or writing quality
13:19
This is untrue.
Everybody knows the Great Lakes were created by Paul Bunyan dragging his axe instead of carrying it.
I think he was sad or something, maybe about the ox?
Zoltan is a dope af name.