The world's oldest living things

Name: The world's oldest living things
Uploaded: 2010-09-03T08:52:00Z
Duration: 13 min 51 s
Description: Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.

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TEDGlobal 2010

• July 2010

Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.