Top Most Aquatic Animals That Can Outlive You 

• Ocean Quahog (200-500 years)

This clam tops the record because it's among the longest lifespans listed of any marine non-vertebrate (excluding the immortal ones). It's a species of edible clam located in the North Atlantic Ocean. The ocean quahog is just one of those longest-lived marine organisms using a regular life span of 200-300 decades.

Truth: The earliest ocean quahog, whose nickname is'Ming', was hauled off the shore of Iceland and when its yearly growth rings were counted, it was 507 years old!

• The Immortal Jellyfish (immortal)

This jellyfish, the Turritopsis dohrnii, literally states"not now" to departure, repeatedly, indefinitely. This jellyfish can change back to its sexually immature nation after getting sexually mature and replicating. This implies it could literally reverse era and then grow - then reverse era , and expand again, and on and on nearly... forever?

Truth: it may also regress to its'polyp' (sexually immature) condition when it's starved, hurt, or even the temperature or salinity changes. If something goes wrong in its own mature life, it merely turns back to a child and begins again- a very unfair skill which everybody is jealous of.

• Greenland Shark (300-500 years)

These big Northern Atlantic sharks have the longest lifespan of vertebrates, living around 500 decades. They reach sexual maturity just after 150 years- a fairly long youth to get. Among the earliest individual sharks analyzed was found to be possibly 512 years of age!

Truth: These critters have been adapted to live at extreme depths and so include trimethylamine N-oxide within their flesh, which makes their beef poisonous to swallow. Nevertheless, in Iceland, the meat is treated along with the toxicity levels are decreased, and this shark is consumed as a delicacy.

• Bowhead Whale (>200 years)

These enormous marine mammals are regarded as the longest-living mammals. Their lifespan wasn't generally supposed to be quite lengthy, before one specimen of this whale was discovered, in 2007, using a harpoon embedded within its own blubber which was fabricated from the 1880s. This caused scientists to research in depth bowhead whale welfare and found that they generally reside to over 200 decades!

Truth: Bowhead whales have the greatest jaw and mouth of any creature now existing! It's one third of its own body length!

• Red Sea Urchin (200 years)

This spiny, underwater member of this Echinoidea family, isn't just a remarkably common delicacy, but has lots of people reaching around 200 decades old, and being in good physical condition.

Truth: Researchers supposed that red sea urchins dwelt for 7-12 decades, nevertheless as age-determination methods advanced, they found they were completely incorrect and these are a few of the longest-lived creatures now present.

• Rougheye Rockfish (200 years)

As with other associated species of rockfish, the rougheye rockfish includes a relatively long run. One especially large one which has been caught by a sport fisherman was obsolete, and found to be 200 years old!

Truth: These fish are known as"rougheye" since they have little spines in their lower eyelid.