Bill Douglas, CFO of Coca-Cola Enterprises, is one of many financial executives who support the above view of the job. Different people and different organizations slice the pie differently, Douglas says.
iStock/QueGar3. Though not technically immortal, the bowhead whale is the oldest living mammal. According to Popular Science, several species of whales have been known to live for more than 70 years, though in the 1990s scientists discovered scars on the massive animals that had been made by weapons from the 1800s. The oldest known bowhead lived to be 211 years old.
Lucy, the world-famous Australopithecus and her cohorts lived across East Africa for nearly 900,000 yearsâneary five times as long as modern humans have been on the planet. They walked on two legs, had flat noses, and prominent jaw bones.