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Top 100 Longest-Living Animals

Friday, August 14, 2026

A past Centumth puzzle. Play it on this page with five guesses, or read the full Top 100 ranking below.

Patience of a tortoise. Ranked by maximum documented lifespan in AnAge (HAGR Build 15, Jul 2023). Animals only; plants excluded. Top sponge ages are rough estimates.

This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.

You can play this archive puzzle with five guesses, or reveal the complete ranking if you came here looking for the list. Revealing locks this puzzle — you won’t be able to play it afterward.

Sources

Outbound sources help you verify the ranking. The published order is Centumth’s.

The full Top 100

  1. #1Hexactinellid sponge
  2. #2Antarctic sponge
  3. #3Ocean quahog
  4. #4Greenland shark
  5. #5Escarpia laminata
  6. #6Seepiophila jonesi
  7. #7Lamellibrachia luymesi
  8. #8Bowhead whale
  9. #9Rougheye rockfish
  10. #10Red sea urchin
  11. #11Galápagos tortoise
  12. #12Pacific geoduck
  13. #13Shortraker rockfish
  14. #14Lake sturgeon
  15. #15Aldabra giant tortoise
  16. #16Orange roughy
  17. #17Warty oreo
  18. #18Eastern box turtle
  19. #19Greek tortoise
  20. #20Human
  21. #21European pond turtle
  22. #22Beluga sturgeon
  23. #23Yelloweye rockfish
  24. #24Tiger rockfish
  25. #25Shortspine thornyhead
  26. #26Sablefish
  27. #27Fin whale
  28. #28Bigmouth buffalo
  29. #29Blue whale
  30. #30Hard clam
  31. #31Redbanded rockfish
  32. #32Northern propellerclam
  33. #33White sturgeon
  34. #34Black cardinalfish
  35. #35Olm
  36. #36Yangtze sturgeon
  37. #37European sturgeon
  38. #38Black oreo
  39. #39American lobster
  40. #40Spiky oreo
  41. #41Smooth oreo
  42. #42Pacific ocean perch
  43. #43Yellowmouth rockfish
  44. #44Humpback whale
  45. #45Atlantic halibut
  46. #46Orca
  47. #47Quillback rockfish
  48. #48Tuatara
  49. #49European eel
  50. #50Rosethorn rockfish
  51. #51Australian lungfish
  52. #52Baird's beaked whale
  53. #53Splitnose rockfish
  54. #54Canary rockfish
  55. #55Major Mitchell's cockatoo
  56. #56Silvergray rockfish
  57. #57Asian elephant
  58. #58China rockfish
  59. #59Andean condor
  60. #60American alligator
  61. #61Loggerhead sea turtle
  62. #62Blanding's turtle
  63. #63Gray whale
  64. #64Sperm whale
  65. #65Green sea turtle
  66. #66Deepwater redfish
  67. #67Spiny dogfish
  68. #68Shortnose spurdog
  69. #69Giant sea bass
  70. #70Sei whale
  71. #71Pacific grenadier
  72. #72Dugong
  73. #73Bryde's whale
  74. #74Alligator snapping turtle
  75. #75Southern ground hornbill
  76. #76Leafscale gulper shark
  77. #77Southern right whale
  78. #78Dwarf crocodile
  79. #79Laysan albatross
  80. #80Common raven
  81. #81West Indian manatee
  82. #82Eurasian eagle-owl
  83. #83Chimpanzee
  84. #84Shortnose sturgeon
  85. #85North Atlantic right whale
  86. #86Dusky rockfish
  87. #87Darkblotched rockfish
  88. #88Salmon-crested cockatoo
  89. #89Chinese alligator
  90. #90African bush elephant
  91. #91Yellowtail rockfish
  92. #92Short-finned pilot whale
  93. #93Desert tortoise
  94. #94False killer whale
  95. #95Komodo dragon
  96. #96Cuvier's beaked whale
  97. #97Hippopotamus
  98. #98Painted turtle
  99. #99Western gorilla
  100. #100Atlantic sturgeon

The full ranked list is included on this page. Use Reveal full 100 list to read it, or play the game above.