How Long Animals Live THE LIFE SPANS OF 50 ANIMALS

Mammals Amphibians Reptiles Birds Fish Echinoderms Mollusks Worms Sponges Cnidarians Arthropods

HOUSE MOUSE Mus musculus

PIGEON FOWLER’S TOAD Columba livia Anaxyrus fowleri 1 (YEAR)

5 KANGAROO SQUIRREL (WESTERN GREY) (EASTERN GREY) Macropus Sciurus carolinensis fuliginosus RATTLESNAKE PRONGHORN EMU CHICKEN CHEETAH (EASTERN Antilocpra Dromaius Gallus gallus Acinonyx 6 DOG americana novaehollandiae domesticus jubatus Canis lupus DIAMONDBACK) familiaris Crotalus 10 adamanteus

13 15 COW AMERICAN BISON Bos taurus Bison bison SOUTHERN TWO-TOED SLOTH CHANNEL RED-CROWNED GRIZZLY BEAR BOBCAT Choloepus CATFISH CRANE Ursus arctos ssp. Lynx rufus 20 didactylus Ictalurus Grus japonensis punctatus

TIGER Panthera tigris 30 25 POLAR BEAR HORSE Ursus maritimus Equus ferus caballus NAKED MOLE RAT BURMESE ROCK Heterocephalus glaber PYTHON ORANGUTAN Python molurus Pongo abelii, bivattatus 50 Pongo pygmaeus One New York Koi have been specimen, reported to live George, lived between 100 to be 140 and 200 years years old. in captivity. 45

LOBSTER AMERICAN ALLIGATOR KOI ASIAN ELEPHANT ANDEAN CONDOR Nephropidae Alligator mississippiensis Cyprinus Elephas maximus Vultur gryphus (family) rubrofuscus

BALD EAGLE JAPANESE GIANT RADIATED TORTOISE TUATARA Haliaeetus SALAMANDER Geochelone radiata Sphenodon GREATER GREEN-WINGED Ieucocephalus Andrias japonicus 50 These blind punctatus FLAMINGO MACAW cave Phoenicopterus Ara chloroptera salamanders roseus can live to 100. OLM Proteus anguinus 60 58 The oldest recorded specimen lived to 122. HUMAN GALÁPAGOS RED SEA URCHIN Homo sapiens TORTOISE Mesocentrotus FRESHWATER Chelonoidis nigra franciscanus 79 PEARL MUSSEL 100 Margaritifera margaritifera 130 One geoduck lived to GEODUCK 168. Panopea 140 generosa

BOWHEAD WHALE Balaena mysticetus 200

ROUGHEYE ROCKFISH Sebastes aleutianus ALDABRA 205 GIANT TORTOISE Aldabrachelys gigantea 255 Specimens studied were estimated to be between 272 and 512 years old.

250 A 507-year-old clam, DEEP-SEA TUBE WORM “Ming,” died in 2006. 272 Lamellibrachia luymesi GREENLAND SHARK OCEAN QUAHOG Somniosus microcephalus Arctica islandica

507

GIANT BARREL SPONGE Xestospongia muta 2,300

BLACK CORAL Leiopathes glaberrima 4,309

IMMORTAL JELLYFISH This species can revert Turritopsis dohrnii from sexual maturity to a sexually immature, colonial stage and repeat the process indefinitely.

SOURCES: nationalzoo.si.edu https://www.darwinfoundation.org wikipedia.org https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/07/animals-oldest-sponges-whales-fish/ https://marinebio.org/ https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/nonpwdpubs/young_naturalist/animals/animal_life_spans/