did you know that the youngest known species on Earth is at most 89 years old in 1975 Japanese scientists were studying the Wastewater of a nylon Factory when they discovered a new species of bacteria that could only do one thing eat nylon now this species most commonly referred to as nylon eating bacteria is really interesting for a number of reasons but the main one is that the only thing it is capable of doing is eating nylon nylon was invented in 1935 meaning these things could not have exis