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My father's entire life fit inside of this bird's life. He was born after her and died before her.

That's insane.




Same, and my old man died 21 years ago. We’re so used to the opposite that it’s strange when they outlive us.


The oldest tortoise around was born during the Industrial Revolution.


https://www.livescience.com/61210-shark-not-512-years-old.ht...

"Eye tissue analysis presented a probability range suggesting that the sharks were at least 272 years old, and could potentially be as much as 512 years old,"


The oldest trees began life before some of our intact civilizations today.




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