If you’ve ever wondered what the oldest animal on Earth is, or other old creatures living on Earth, continue reading below.

The longest living animals can survive for ... a Seychelles giant tortoise thought to be the oldest reptile living on Earth. ... The oldest living land animal is a 190-year-old Seychelles ...

Scientists recently found one billion-year-old fungi in Canada, changing the way we view evolution and the timing of plants and animals here on Earth. The fossilized specimen was collected in ...

Turner presented what she proposes as the oldest known animal — a fossil specimen of what she says is an 890 million-year-old sponge — in a 2021 paper in the journal Nature. However, not ...

Simple animal life may have existed in Earth’s oceans 890 million years ago, according to new research. New fossils belonging to ancient sponges may be the earliest known belonging to an animal ...

“Our findings suggest that the animals of the Ediacara biota, which lived on Earth prior to the ‘Cambrian Explosion’ of modern animal life, were a mixed bag of outright weirdos, such as ...

Earth's first animals had particular taste in real estate. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 05 / 230509122052.htm ...

Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows — for the first time — that some of Earth’s earliest animals managed to be picky about where they lived.