How Long Different Creatures on Earth Live
Humans can live up to 150 years, the intermountain bristlecone pine — up to 5,000 years, a giant sequoia lives up to 3,000 years, and some jellyfish can reverse their age and live forever.
5-Minute Crafts has prepared a list of creatures that live anywhere from several hours to eternity.
According to scientists, the maximum lifespan for humans is around 150 years. Some types of sequoia can live for up to 3,000 years. And a mayfly lives for just 24 hours. The life cycles of these creatures are extremely different.
In wild nature, the lifespan of animals depends not only on the species and biological capabilities, but also on the habitat, food sources, defense capabilities, and other factors.
In this article, we’re talking about the maximum lifespan for certain species.
Several hours of days
- 24 hours: mayfly
- 7 days: gastrotrich
- 14 days: fruit fly, butterfly, silkworm, American copper
- 59 days: Eviota sigillata
Several months or years
- 1 month: housefly
- 3 months: drone ant
- 4 months: moth, dragonfly
- 8 months: bee
- 1.5 years: mosquito fish
- 1 year: Labord’s chameleon, Paedophryne amauensis frog
- 2 years: guppy
- 3 years: mouse, hamster
- 5 years: rat, Bernese mountain dog (5-7 years)
- 10 years: rabbit, goldfish, canary, clownfish, guinea pig, Achatina snail, devil’s ivy
- 12 years: big dog breeds, such as German Shepherds, Golden Retrievers, Labrador Retrievers, Rottweilers, and Doberman Pinschers, as well as giant breeds such as Great Danes, St. Bernards, and Mastiffs
- 15 years: angelfish
- 20 years: small dog breeds (Yorkshire terriers, Chihuahuas, Dachshunds, Toy Poodles and Lhasa Apsos), house cats, king cobra, koi, pigeon, leopard gecko
- 30 years: horse, brown bear, conure parrot, lorikeets, quaker
- 40 years: goanna
- 50 years: gorilla, caique parrot, Eclectus parrot
- 60 years: cockatoo, Jardine’s parrot
- 70 years: African elephant, macaw (75 years)
- 85 years: African slender-snouted crocodile, flamingo (83 years)
- 100 years: Greek tortoise, leopard tortoise, Bigmouth buffalo (112 years), tuatara
- 120 years: sturgeon (125 years), tardigrade
- 150 years: human
- 190 years: Seychelles giant tortoise
- 200 years: bowhead whale, rougheye rockfish, red sea urchin
- 240 years: cycad
- 280 years: freshwater pearl mussel
- 300 years: tubeworm
- 500 years: Greenland shark, ocean quahog
Thousands of years
- 2,000 years: Panke baobab, fig (2,309 years)
- 3,000 years: giant sequoia, alerce tree (3,639 years)
- 4,000 years: deep-sea coral
- 5,000 years: great basin bristlecone pine, Abarkuh, Llangernyw yew
- 8,500 years: Armillaria solidipes
- 9,550 years: Norway spruce
- 10,000 years: Huon pine
- 11,000 years: deep-sea sponge Monorhaphis chuni, creosote bush (11,700 years)
- 13,000 years: Eucalyptus recurva, box huckleberry
- 14,000 years: Pando
- 43,600 years: Lomatia tasmanica
- 80,000 years: Populus tremuloides
- 200,000 years: Posidonia oceanica
- 500,000 years: Actinomycetota
- 101.5 million years: aerobic microorganisms
- Eternity: Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish, hydra