The Old Ones
Lineages and individuals that have outlasted almost everything.
A bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California germinated before the Great Pyramid was built. Ginkgo leaves are found, almost unchanged, in rocks 200 million years old. The coelacanth was known only as a fossil until a fisherman landed one in 1938.
NL·0121 · Pinaceae
Great Basin bristlecone pine
Pinus longaeva
NL·0075 · Ginkgoaceae
Ginkgo (Maidenhair tree)
Ginkgo biloba
NL·0019 · Araucariaceae
Wollemi pine
Wollemia nobilis
NL·0173 · Welwitschiaceae
Welwitschia
Welwitschia mirabilis
NL·0050 · Cupressaceae
Giant sequoia
Sequoiadendron giganteum
NL·0513 · Latimeriidae
West Indian Ocean coelacanth
Latimeria chalumnae
NL·0518 · Limulidae
Atlantic horseshoe crab
Limulus polyphemus
NL·0577 · Ornithorhynchidae
Platypus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
NL·0151 · Salicaceae
Quaking aspen
Populus tremuloides
NL·0201 · Physalacriaceae
Dark honey fungus (humongous fungus)
Armillaria ostoyae
NL·0553 · Nautilidae
Chambered nautilus
Nautilus pompilius
Also in this story, from the open stacks: Cycas revoluta.