greatest age

[jojp]

what spiecies of animal has achieved the greatest age

[kaylamay]

Oh, i expect one of those giant tortoises that can achieve 100's of years or maybe some of the parrot type birds, they can live to 100 or more.
Mikala

[YvonneM]

The Oldest Living Animals
Harriet, the 176 year old Galapagos Tortoise, was the oldest animal in the world
until her death in June 2006. She is pictured here being wrangled by the ...
www.mudpiglet.com/archives/oldest.htm - 16k - cached - related

[sir.prize]

IT'S A FISH!!

Hanako died on July 17, 1977 at the age of 226 years.

Scroll down this link and read all about it . . . .

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[JonBonJovi]

Harriet the tortoise was the oldest as previously stated. She was once owned by Charles Darwin.

[gizmo1]

I just saw something on that programme 'Coast' on BBC2 about clams in the Irish Sea being hundreds of years old, right up to four hundred and beyond. Sounds mad, doesn't it? Have I misremembered?