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Species of black coral were considered to be the longest-living marine animals. A polyp species in Hawaiian waters had been dated at 4,270 years old and continued to thrive.
That study concluded the coral had been growing continuously for more than 400,000 years.”
Despite appearances, the world is only one disaster away from barbarism.
Currently, though, the score stands at twelve on the moon and twenty-two who reached the bottom of the ocean’s deepest trenches.”
“While octopuses are classified as cephalopods, they make no evolutionary sense. Their huge brains, their complicated nervous systems, their camera-like eyes, even their ability to camouflage—all these features just suddenly appeared on the evolutionary scene. Octopuses can even edit their own RNA to help them adapt to their environment, unlike any other organism. Across the board, they’re light-years ahead in evolution compared to all their cephalopod relatives.”
The modern world has never experienced an eight. The last was seventy thousand years ago, the Toba eruption. It was so devastating that it drove the human population down to a mere thirty thousand people.”
