The world's only immortal animal
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The world's only immortal animal
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Re: The world's only immortal animal
#2What about single celled life? In a division one call seems to get renewed while another seems to age, you say. What if this animal is doing something similar?
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#3It's my understanding that certain turtles don't exhibit telomere shortening, and are effectively 'immortal' as well in that they don't age.
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#4Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking.
Did they like ... just evolve or something? You'd think they'd have spiked before now and reached equilibrium.
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#6It's my understanding that certain turtles don't exhibit telomere shortening, and are effectively 'immortal' as well in that they don't age.
Do they not get cancer?
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#7This form of immortality displeases me. I'd rather not turn back into a fetus for the sake of immortality.
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#8Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. Did they like ... just evolve or something? You'd think they'd have spiked before now and reached equilibrium.
I think they got eaten instead.
Biological immortality no good if you get ate pretty soon.
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#9Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. Did they like ... just evolve or something? You'd think they'd have spiked before now and reached equilibrium.
Good point. This might have something to do with global warming and extinction of predators.
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#10So is this animals natural predator diminishing in numbers, which is why they are spiking?