A small cave salamander, nicknamed “the human fish” because of its human-like skin tone, holds the world’s record for longest-lived amphibian.
The salamander, also called olm and Proteus, has a maximum lifespan of over 100 years. That’s nearly double the age of other often-elderly amphibians: the Japanese giant salamander (55 years), the African bullfrog (45 years), the common European toad (40 years) and the mudpuppy (34 years).
(via papillonland)
