This dense flowering shrub, a relative of parsley, is more than 2,000 years old.

The mass of branches at the bottom of this tree grew that way for about 9,500 years. The spindly trunk in the center shot up in the last 50 years, thanks to a warming climate.

This boabab tree in Kruger Game Preserve in South Africa might be as old as 2,000 years.

A 5,500 year old moss bank on Elephant Island, Antarctica, near the site where the Shackleton expedition was marooned 100 years ago.

This Mediterranean sea grass is 100,000 years old.

Bristlecone pines can live more than 5,000 years, making them the oldest unitary organisms in the world.