# The world's oldest living things

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2010
- Speaker: Rachel Sussman
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_sussman_the_world_s_oldest_living_things)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.

## Lectures

1. [The world's oldest living things](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/rachel_sussman_the_world_s_oldest_living_things/7ee49a1c04f0), 14 min (TED's player)