The oldest living language in the world is Chinese, whose earliest written evidence dates back to about 1,250 B.C. Scholars think the Chinese language is older than that, ...

For nearly a decade, the photographer Rachel Sussman has been traveling around the world, capturing images of the oldest continuously living things in the world, part of an effort to “step ...

Here, Rachel Sussman discusses some amazingly old things. In fact, these are the oldest living things in the world. Throughout the video, Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest ...

Photos of the World’s Oldest Living Things Among the organisms documented by photographer Rachel Sussman are 80,000-year-old aspen trees and 600,000-year-old bacteria. Joseph Stromberg.

Whereas some of these other things—the 3000 year old lichen living in Greenland—that does not take your breath away, I would walk right past it without even knowing the difference.

And this past April, University of Chicago Press published the monograph “The Oldest Living Things in the World“ You can read more about Sussman's work in her interview, view her work live at ...

I photographed the oldest living stromatolites, which are between 2,000 and 3,000 years old, living in Western Australia. Not far beyond the beach is an meteor impact site. It could be coincidence ...

Oldest living things on Earth: It's hard to pinpoint exact dates, but these 10 creatures and plants are among Earth's most tenacious living things. A Laysan albatross named Wisdom, pictured, was ...

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The oldest living language in the world is Chinese, whose earliest written evidence dates back to about 1,250 B.C. Scholars think the Chinese language is older than that, ...

Oldest living things on Earth: It's hard to pinpoint exact dates, but these 10 creatures and plants are among Earth's most tenacious living things. A Laysan albatross named Wisdom, pictured, was ...

For nearly a decade, the photographer Rachel Sussman has been traveling around the world, capturing images of the oldest continuously living things in the world, part of an effort to “step ...