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Coral May Live for Thousands of Years Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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Age estimate places coral among the most long-lived species on the planet. Some species of coral can live for over 4,000 years — longer than any other animal that lives in the ocean, a study has found. Uncertainty over how to date coral makes estimates of their lifespan contentious. A radiocarbon-dating study published in 2006 by Brendan Roark, then at Stanford University in California, suggested that living colonies of Gerardia corals could be more than 2,700 years old. (source: nature.com)
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