Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Coral

Worlds oldest animal aged to 4000 years


New Research
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Texas
A&M University researcher Brendan Roark announced last week at
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that age and growth studies of deep-sea gold corals (Geradia sp.) and black corals (Leiopathes glaberrima, pictured left) indicate these animals live between two and four millennia, repectively. Science Magazine covers the story here, the press release is here, and Discover Magazine reports here.

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