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Popova gushes over Rachel Sussman’s The Oldest Living Things in the World, a book of photos and essays about organisms more than 2000 years old: With an artist’s gift for “aesthetic force” and a scientist’s rigorous respect for truth, Sussman straddles a multitude of worlds as she travels across space and time to unearth Earth’s … Continue reading Ancient Survivors

  (Photo of the 2,000 year-old welwitschia miribilis in Namibia, by Rachel Sussman) by Zoe Pollock In a project that is part science, part philosophy and part art, Rachel Sussman photographs the oldest continuously living organisms in the world. Her fascinating TED talk is here.

Kottke passes along a picture of a 400,000-year-old actinobacteria from Siberia.