The oldest living organisms in the world are the Bristlecomb pines of the mountain regions of California and Nevada. They can live for greater than 5,000 years and in the course of their lifetime they will see 1,000,000 sunrises!
Eotyrannus
Eotyrannus A previously unknown relative of Tyrannosaurus rex
has been unearthed in Britain. Eotyrannus (early tyrant) lengi, was
a 4.5 meter long carnivore that lived 120 to 125 million years ago.
This discovery can be viewed as part of a missing link. The T-rex
lived around 60 - 70 million years ago, and by this time, the
Eotyrannus lengi was already 55 million years old. The first bones
were found in 1997 on a cliff top near a village in Britain, but it
has taken 4 more years to excavate the site more fully and to
identify the find. This link provides much more information on the
early evolution of T-rex that was previously unknown. The
Eotyrannus is much smaller than the T-rex, which stood 11.5 meters
high, but had a similar skull, shoulder and limb structure. It
would have been a fast, agile predator, preying mainly on species
such as Valdosaurus and Hypsilophodon. Eotyrannus may also be
closely related to the Velociraptor, a two-meter-long predator of
the mid-Cretaceous period, around 90 million years ago. Scientists
say that their small head, long powerful arms and sharp claws were
very similar to those of Eotyrranus. MAY 10, 2001
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