9 Animals That Will Outlive Humans

Human beings will survive a long time—but due to amazing survival techniques, these 9 animal species will definitely live longer. Join Michael Aranda for a new episode of SciShow, and find out why these species will outlive us! We ve been nominated for a Webby! Please vote: http://tinyurl.com/sswebby ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Coda Buchanan, Lucy McGlasson, Accalia Elementia, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Saul, Kathy & Tim Philip, Kevin Bealer, Christopher Collins, Thomas J., charles george, Andreas Heydeck, Patrick D. Ashmore, Justin Lentz, Will and Sonja Marple, Ed Shelley, Chris Peters, Tim Curwick, Philippe von Bergen, Fatima Iqbal. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/the-immortal-jellyfish http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18484411 http://sciencenordic.com/new-record-world%E2%80%99s-oldest-animal-507-years-old http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/03/24/bdelloid-rotifers-the-worlds-most-radiation-resistant-animals/#.VuW3DJwrKM_ http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/11/bdelloids-surviving-borrowed-dna http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/ufbir/chapters/chapter_21.shtml http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Dipodomys_merriami/ http://sdnhm.org/oceanoasis/fieldguide/dipo-mer.html http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/12/07/what_is_inside_a_camels_hump/ http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/dromedary-camel/ http://www.hfsp.org/frontier-science/awardees-articles/living-ice-how-do-polar-fishes-survive-freezing http://www.lastocean.org/Commercial-Fishing/About-Toothfish/All-about-Antarctic-toothfish-__I.2445 http://mentalfloss.com/article/49752/could-cockroaches-really-survive-nuclear-war http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2003-12/1072227809.Zo.r.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1028_021028_TVtubeworm_2.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/science/the-tardigrade-water-bear.html http://www.asknature.org/strategy/c1eb0f25d3e091f568ce26c0c6f8646fl http://mutage.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/3/259.full https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225549141_A_silent_invasion http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/publications/tm/tm148/tm148.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26079722 Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADromedary_camel_dahab_egypt.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADromedary_camel.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AChapultepec_Zoo_-_Dromedary_camel.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADromedary_Camel_15.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMerriam s_Kangaroo_Rat.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACataglyphis_bicolor_casent0104612_profile_1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARiftia_tube_worms_Galapagos_2011.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADmawsoni_Head_shot.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AArctica_islandica_1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACyprina1000111.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARoachies.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABdelloid.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGlace05.jpg