Did you know that the world’s oldest animal, a species of deep sea coral, can live to be over four thousand years old? Some that began life at the height of the ancient Egyptian empire are still alive!
Even these animals, which have survived for so long and live so deep that few humans have ever seen them, are threatened by human actions. The commerical fishing practice known as deep sea trawling (dragging a net across the bottom) kills these corals, along with many other animals.