[PCA] NEWS: When You Were Just A Twinkle In A Cro-Magnon's Eye

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123378720

When You Were Just A Twinkle In A Cro-Magnon's Eye
by Kathleen Masterson

In the grand scheme of things, humans are mere infants on this planet. 
Some creatures alive today were swimming under the sea during the U.S. 
Civil War or photosynthesizing when the Egyptian pyramids were being 
built. Here are six of the oldest living things on the planet.

See the link above for the full article.  Two of them are native plants in 
the US.