[john567]

You expect some enormous sea monster but all you got was some kind of immortal sea weed. Trees have this thing as well. Many tree organisms are 100 000 years old. There's also some kind of distinction between tree organisms and tree individuals. Tree individuals don't get to be that old.

[xiande04]

I didn't expect a sea monster at all. Actually, I expected a fungus.

[emsy]

Headline said Australia, so I expected it to be deadly.

[sophacles]

Fungus is a pretty deadly kingdom overall, even the fungi from the rest of the continents too.

[V-2]

My thoughts went towards the coral reef, esp. with Australia in the headline.

[m463]

I can't help but think discoverability for a fungus would be much lower.

[xiande04]

As opposed to a sea monster?

[andsoitis]

> Many tree organisms are 100 000 years old.

Fascinating list of longest-living organisms, including aerobic microorganisms that are in quasi-suspended animation and over 100 million years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organis...

[m463]

> There's also some kind of distinction between tree organisms and tree individuals

Now if the Ship of Theseus used wood from that tree organism...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus