Do you know one of Earth’s oldest known living animals?

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Posted By: The Blue Reporters 12th June 2016

Did you know that Deep-sea corals are among the Earth’s oldest known living animals?   Scientists estimated that a black coral species (genus Leiopathes) had an age of 4,265 years.

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