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Amazing chart shows the planet's longest-living animals. For humans, reaching the age of 100 is a rare milestone. For some animals, however, it's hardly uncommon. Not all plants and animals age the way we do, and some are built for much longer lifespans than ours. Of the 10 animals that live the longest, all of them live well past 100, according to a recent post in Discovery News. At the top of the list, the ocean quahog (aka the clam) lives to be 400 years old, while the runner-up bowhead whale lives to be 211.
Confidence votes 56. The largest animal alive to day is the Blue Whale. The Blue Whale is the largest animal EVER alive! Because it's so big, an animal that size can only live in the ocean, because if it was on land, its weight would collapse on itself and it would crush its own bones! Although it is extremely big, it only eats small fish, like krill.