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Some Animals That Never Die
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Ever wanted to live forever?
Before scientists discovered the elixir of immortality, it's something to dream about and envy our planet's opposite inhabitants. Because there are plenty of creatures on earth that live forever well almost forever but so long that it seems as if they've defeated death it's strange that in this scenario. People are blamed for overpopulation, not tardy grades.
Who'd have thought that lobsters had the secret of eternal life? Yeah of course it doesn't mean that they can't be killed otherwise why would people catch them in such numbers lobster, Yet lobsters do have a secret most animals almost stop growing when they reach puberty. But not American lobsters moreover even as an adult this lobster can grow a limb if it accidentally loses it. It's a very useful ability everyone should have.
Don't you think unlike many creatures including humans American lobsters don't get weaker over the years?
On the contrary, they stay strong and continue to grow in size the bigger the lobster the older. It is in 2009 a fisherman from Maine cut an enormous 19-pound lobster that was 140 years old and it isn't even the oldest lobster found to the present day in 1997 people caught a 44-pound giant so what percentage years can American lobsters live. If they've not eaten 300 500 thousand ming the clam it's generally believed that scientists work for the benefit of our planet unless they accompany their work with sinister laughter and live in a dark castle of course. But sometimes even the most innocuous ideas turn into a disaster or a small tragedy that's what happened to the clam called ming.
Just imagine you're a clown pearl of the sea no you don't have to mime it just imagine you're a clam that was born in 1499 Amerigo Vespucci just reached the coast of South America that's how long ago it was your life. Isn't particularly exciting you filter the water you eat plankton you reproduce from time to time anyway it's like the other clams live that's how 507 years go by but that's not the limit you are feeling alive enough for a clam and you do not want to die in the least but you're pulled out of the water and given to scientists who are very happy to find you and begin to study you and then they accidentally kill you in the process.
Scientists found out that ming the clam might well have been immortal if they hadn't opened the shell damn it immortal jellyfish sometimes immortality is not just eternal life in one form jellyfish ceratopsids curricula knows exactly it's possible to change constantly and at the same time to be considered officially immortal it's quite simple this creature having reached maturity sinks to rock bottom and turns into a polyp covered with chitin cuticle then buds appear on the polyp under the cuticle where the longer term.
jellyfishes are formed after a while they go floating on their own that is one jellyfish sort of divided into many little ones and this process can repeat itself an infinite number of times ceratopsids nutricula only dies if somebody eats it tardigrades the first time you hear of a tardigrade.
it's like they're not even from our planet there's a moss piglet or a tardigrade they are the toughest and coolest creatures that man has ever seen. These microscopic invertebrates can live without water in food for up to 30 years and can tolerate extreme temperatures and even radiation even 302 degrees fahrenheit doesn't seem to be an unpleasant condition for a tardigrade it's going to well last up to 10 hours at this temperature a hell of a frost to minus 457 degrees is not any problem either nor is pressure of 6 000 atmospheres this creature is extraordinary tough tardy grades live in hot springs at the top of the himalayas and in the sea at a depth of 2.4 miles.
From the polar regions to the equator one can find tardigrades everywhere if one searches well if conditions seem unfavorable to them tardigrades just stop their metabolism and wait and they skills to attend some scientists believe that albeit all life on our planet disappears the tardigrades are going to be fine no mass extinctions from the past have affected them in any way volcanic eruptions a new ice age cosmic exposure a star blast tardigrades are so cool that they won't even turn back on that blast.
planarians-actually planarians are small flatworms spread all over the world there wouldn't be anything unusual about them if it weren't for their amazing ability to turn lost body parts into separate organisms if you divide the planarian along or across each part of it becomes an independent individual even the tiniest pieces which make up no more than one percent of the planarian can turn into an entire organism in just a couple of weeks.
You could say that the planarians are the true genius of regeneration all other animals can do so only with their cells in the early germ stages but planarians are ready to regenerate at any age and in any direction.
The oldest tortoise today Jonathan is 188 years old and has lost his sight and sense of smell. but he can hear and he feels great he's also always hospitable new things. So, in 2017 it turned out that one of his favorite females was actually a male. scientists estimate their life expectancy at 300 to 500 years there are also more ancient.
Species and yes we want to call them ancient rather than old in 2019 in the north Atlantic scientists found a shark whose age exceeded 512 years. It didn't show an id but it is known that Greenland sharks grow by .39 inches in a year with the help of simple calculations.
It was proven that the researchers found a shark older than Shakespeare don't understand Shakespeare but the other scientists didn't agree with such calculations they assumed that the shark was born in the 17th century but even so it could have been around a famous English playwright hydra some creatures can only be called absurd like hydras not the ones with a bunch of heads certainly not marvel's comic book organization hydra is a tiny creature with a soft body that lives in fresh water with a maximum body length of 0.39, inches.
Hydras could hardly interest scientists if they weren't immortal the idea that these tiny things can live forever appeared a long time ago but it wasn't proven until 1997. back then scientists watched hydras for four years and found that they didn't die of old age they didn't even get old at the end of the four-year experiment.
Hydras looked as young as they did the day they started probably because of the regeneration that makes hydra biologically immortal you can't die if your cells are constantly regenerating does that make any sense yep dead bull would agree.
We can only guess how many years a hydra can live perhaps even 10 000 years red sea urchin the life of red sea urchins could be called boring but this boredom lasts a very very long time 50 years easy a hundred easy peasy even 200 years for a red sea urchin is no time or maybe there are older ones just scientists haven't gotten to them yet. I mean the urchin that was born the day of the battle of austerlitz is still alive and well if no one ate him what's more it feels as fine as the young ones it's barely getting any older. It used to be thought that red sea urchins lived 7 to 15 years like many other underwater creatures, but then it turned out that they can have such a lifetime that anyone will envy, although none of the known earth creatures live forever.
Red sea urchins seem almost immortal they die because of predators and fisherman's actions in rare cases from diseases but certainly not from old age
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