(Lobo) Orensanz et al., the oldest recorded specimen was 168 years old. The clams currently sell for huge sums of money, which has made poaching a problem.Īccording to a scientific research paper by J.M. These clams were not fished commercially until the 1970s, but in recent decades a huge demand from Asian markets has developed, and the clams are now farmed as well as being harvested in the wild. With their extremely long siphons which can be 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length, the geoduck is both one of the largest clams in the world, and one of the longest-lived animals of any type. The geoduck is native to the west coast of North America, primarily occurring in Washington State and British Columbia. Contrary to the spelling, the pronunciation of this clam is “gooey duck” and the odd spelling is likely the result of poor transcription. The common name is derived from a Native American word meaning “dig deep”. The geoduck ( Panopea generosa) is a species of very large, edible, saltwater clam in the family Hiatellidae. This would make it the oldest known mammal that exists. The aging method used measures changes in aspartic acid in a specimen’s eyeball and has an accuracy range of about 16%, meaning the 211 year-old bowhead could have been from 177 – 245 years old. In an article by science writer Ned Rozell of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a whale was analyzed with an age of 211 years. It is listed by the National Marine Fisheries Service as “endangered” under the auspices of the United States’ Endangered Species Act. It lives entirely in fertile Arctic and sub-Arctic waters, unlike other whales that migrate to feed or reproduce to low latitude waters. This thick-bodied species can weigh 75 tonnes (74 long tons 83 short tons) to 100 tonnes (98 long tons 110 short tons), second only to the blue whale in weight. 95 Jiroemon Kimura (116 years, 54 days) was the oldest verified man and died on 12 June 2013. 94 Jeanne Calment, a French woman, lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days, making her the oldest fully documented human who has ever lived. A stocky dark-colored whale without a dorsal fin, it can grow to 20 m (66 ft) in length. Humans are the longest living land mammals. The Bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus) is a baleen whale of the right whale family Balaenidae.

Longest living animal age