For nearly a decade, Brooklyn-based contemporary artist and photographer Rachel Sussman has been researching and traveling the globe in search of the world's oldest living organisms and some of them are even 80,000 years old. From Antarctica to Greenland, the Australian Outback to Mojave Desert, she takes some stunning photographs of ancient organisms.
The list includes a colony of aspens tree in Utah that are thought to be around 80,000 years old, a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub, the dense Llareta plants living more than 3,000 years and many others.
The list includes a colony of aspens tree in Utah that are thought to be around 80,000 years old, a 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub, the dense Llareta plants living more than 3,000 years and many others.
Stromatolites: 2,000-3,000 years old (Carbla Station, Western Australia)
Pafuri Baobab: Up to 2,000 years old (Kruger National Park, South Africa)
