Neptune Grass is the new oldest living thing in the world
We all know that the 43,000 year-old Tasmanian plant is the oldest living thing in the world but it has now been broked by a newly discovered giant patches of seagrass in the Mediterranean sea called Neptune Grass
The oldest living thing was discovered by Australian Scientists, the Giant Patches of seagrass in the
Mediterranean sea which is believed to be 200,000-year-old. As reported by the Huffington Post,
scientists was able to determine the age of the oldest living thing by a
process called "DNA sequencing," which covered 40 different sites over a 2,000 mile range from Cyprus to Spain.
Scientifically named Posidonia oceanica or commonly known as
Mediterranean tapeweed or Neptune Grass, the patches of seagrass was between 12,000 and
200,000 years old and was most likely to be at least 100,000 years old and is at 6000 tons.