A Biologist Explains The ‘Weird’ Habits Of People Who Live To 100+ Years Old
Forbes December 21, 2024
The animal kingdom has a lot to say about the things that can keep us alive longer than we deserve. Take the story of the longest living trapdoor spider, who survived in the Australian outback to the ripe age of 43. Her secret? She stayed in her same burrow for her entire life and subsisted on an austere diet of small insects she would ambush via one of her trap door entrances.
Or, consider the Greenland shark–the longest living vertebrate known to science, capable of living up to 500 years. The Greenland shark cruises the depths of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, preferring to subsist in near-freezing waters where it can keep its metabolism slow. Its diet consists of...