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Again, note that we observed a very late surviving mouse in this group, which lived about twice as long as the second-longest surviving mouse in the group.
Meet Australopithecus sediba, which lived about 2m years ago.
Josephoartigasia monesi, which lived about three million years ago, is the biggest fossil rodent ever found.
An Ardipithecus ramidus, which lived about 5.8 million years ago in Ethiopia, was a close competitor.
Before the latest discovery, the oldest known horned dinosaur from North America was zuniceratops, which lived about 90m years ago.
The newly named species, Pelagornis chilensis, which lived about 5 million to 10 million years ago, had a wingspan of at least 17 feet.
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Scallops are especially vulnerable, because unlike clams and oysters, which live about 10 years, scallops live only two.
And then there is a matter of timing: many of the city's water oaks, which live about 80 or 90 years, were planted in the 1920s to line new neighborhoods like Ansley Park.
Cows live for more than 20 years, however, so the only quick way to find the answer about telomeres and lifespan will be with mice, which live about two years.
Emery Thompson notes that wild elephants, which live about 10 years longer than chimpanzees, give birth into their 60s, indicating that the age of oocytes (which females make before they're born) does not limit reproduction, as some have posited about mammals.
Normally, the animals, which live about 6 years, don't breed before age 2. But when Jones and colleagues gauged the age and reproductive status of devils--via tooth erosion and sex organ development--they found evidence for breeding several months to a year earlier than normal at four out of five sites studied.
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