Orange roughy live in the deep ocean, where they’re often caught by trawling ships. (Credit: New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)

Would you eat an animal if you knew it was as
old as the U.S. Constitution?

Scientists in New Zealand have aged a fish
called an orange roughy at between 230- and 245-years-old, making it
one of the longest-lived fin-fish on record.

The ancient fish was born in the late 1700s
— and then caught
in 2015 by a New Zealand commerci