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Lobsters and some jellyfish are functionally immortal as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrn
by s_dev 11y ago
Lobsters and some jellyfish are functionally immortal as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
- fsloth 11y agoSmithsonian magazine disagrees on the immortality of lobsters: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dont-listen-to-the-buzz-lobsters-arent-actually-immortal-88450872/?no-ist http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dont-listen-to-... Although, since they will eventually die of energy depletion from growing too large, if they actually stopped growing they might go on ... a lot longer?
- creshal 11y ago> Although, since they will eventually die of energy depletion from growing too large, if they actually stopped growing they might go on ... a lot longer? If humans stopped ageing they'd go on a lot longer, too. But as long as they can't it's a hypothetical scenario in both cases.
- kaffeemitsahne 11y agoMaybe it's because I'm not a lobster, but halting growth to keep energy requirements low seems like an easier problem.
- reasonattlm 11y agoA few years back researchers found a way to measure lobster age, something that had been a challenge until then: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/lobster-age_n_2215990.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/lobster-age_n_22159... So give it a few more years and there should be some firm data on how negligibly senescent they actually are. Much of the present situation was a lack of good data.