TED: A Look at the World’s Oldest Living Things

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TED Talks latest installment comes from Rachel Sussman. In a presentation given in July at Oxford, Sussman shares photos of the world’s oldest living organisms; including armillaria death rings in Oregon, which are over 2,400 years old.

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