200 Years old: the world longevity record

In 2007, a group of Inuit hunters conducted their traditional annual whale hunt. They caught a bowhead whale, but they also found something unexpected—embedded in the whale’s blubber was part of a harpoon from the last time people had tried to hunt the whale. Based on the type of harpoon and markings on it, scientists were able to date it, and the harpoon turned out to be 120 years old.