On Earth, everyone has measured his term. To someone like one-day butterflies, it’s only a day, someone a couple of years, someone – dozens. But only a few creatures on our planet possess over-survival. Their century is measured in hundreds of years, their body does not know aging. They know how to live both in heat and in frost, under exposure to radiation and other extreme conditions.
Content
- 1 Jellyfish Turnitopsis Nutricula
- 2 Lobsters
- 3 turtle
- 4 Flatworms
- 5 whale
- 6 Bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans
- 7 Tardigrades (Tardigrada)
- 8 Hydras
- 9 Sea urchin
Jellyfish Turnitopsis Nutricula
She figured out how to deceive old age and death.
Having become ill or injured, jellyfish go to the stage of the polyp. They begin to grow in the opposite direction, becoming younger and younger, when they reach a maximum, they begin to grow up again, and so to infinity.
They also get younger during mating.
Lobsters
They are mortal, but not old age, because lobsters self-healing DNA.
Lobsters grow all their lives, the larger the lobster, the older it is. Regardless of age, the reproductive system works perfectly.
The oldest and largest lobster that was caught weighed 9.1 kg, and his age was approximately 140 years.
Turtle
Scientists have found that with age, the body of a turtle is not at all getting old. The oldest known tortoise was 250 years old.
This means that if the predator does not attack the turtle or if it If she doesn’t get sick, she will live forever.
Flatworms
These worms have amazing regeneration capabilities.
If a flatworm is cut along or across or divided into parts, then new parts are formed from these parts.
But that is not all. Thanks to the ability to regenerate worms learned to deceive and old age, i.e., the loss of part of the worm and further regeneration leads to its rejuvenation. Starvation is strong reduces the body of the animal and this also causes rejuvenation. From over small pieces of a divided worm produce younger individuals, than from large ones.
Whale
Although these animals are mortal, they find whales with scars from weapons of another 1800 years.
The oldest whale is about 211 years old.
Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria
This organism is not afraid of either cold or heat, they are not afraid acid, dehydration and even radiation.
The bacterium can withstand 1.5 million rad gamma radiation. It’s in thousand times the dose lethal to humans. She is not afraid even death, because of the amazing ability of her DNA The bacterium will come to life again.
Tardigrades (Tardigrada)
This tiny invertebrate is almost impossible to kill. IN moment of danger they fall into suspended animation, which can last years.
Tardigrades can survive in a frozen space vacuum space and can withstand temperatures close to the point boiling.
Scientists say they will live until the sun will die, and that will happen in about seven billion years.
Hydras
If you learned about immortal jellyfish not so long ago, then about hydra scientists started talking back in the 19th century. And they were able to prove that these creatures do not age.
They can die either from illness or by being eaten.
Sea urchin
Just like a lobster, it does not age at all, but even in a hundred years possesses the same abilities that he had at ten.
The cause of death of the hedgehog is not old age, but predators, fishermen and diseases.
While people are looking for the magic elixir of immortality, these animals have been living quietly on our planet for hundreds of years. It is likely that in reality there are many more such creatures.
