The oldest denizen of the sea No well bred scientist can ask a lady shark how old she is, says S.Ananthanarayanan. The problem however, goes beyond good manners, for it is challenging to tell the age of some living things that last more than a human lifetime.
The legendary Redwood trees are hundreds to thousands of years old. We can work out their age , however, from the ‘growth rings’ once the tree is felled, or even from records of people, long dead, who were familiar with the tree.............