A giant barrel sponge growing on a Caribbean reef off the island of Curaçao
was estimated to be roughly 2,300 years old when it was photographed by
researchers — meaning it began growing at the bottom of the ocean during
the lifetime of Hannibal and survived as a single continuous living
organism, filtering seawater on that exact spot, from before the founding
of the Roman Empire until it died of disease in 2012
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Hannibal was 28 years old, still a few years away from leading 37 war
elephants over the Alps to invade Italy, when somewhere beneath the warm
shallow wa...
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