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Re:The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385M-Year-Old Tree Roots by 8bitsrule on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:25PM (#21854978)
The root system of clonal colony 'Pando' (in Utah), still alive (barely,thanks to us), dates to 80,000 ya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

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Re:The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385M-Year-Old Tree Roots by quixoticelixer- on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:33AM (#21855624)
There is unlikely to be any alive material that is that old though
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Re:The World’s Oldest Forest Has 385M-Year-Old Tree Roots by 8bitsrule on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:15PM (#21860020)
Not on the individual cell level. Human cells last days to months ... continually replaced by division. Over time all of our cells are replaced. I guess all other cellular organisms are like that.

Question of definition whether clones are the 'same individual organism'.

More details here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organis...

Then there's this possibly immortal jellyfish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii

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