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IMMORTAL animals
Having seen this in the improvements thread, thought this was worthy of its own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
Could any sciency types clarify if we can steal/replicate bits of these dudes so we can live forever as long as we manage to avoid getting run over?
Oh for fu...
we can
you just need to stun one of these and then eat it raw. Then again, I've done more physics than biology.
no rude "jokes" here please
Immortal jellyfish
what the colonial stage?
dans?
"it is the only known case of an animal capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage"
Um.
its basically like a butterfly reverting back to a caterpillar. Except the caterpillar lives in a colony.
Sort of. (Not my area)
ah yeah makes sense
I was momentarily confused as the phrase colonial period makes me think solely of the victorians talking about the white man's burden
'deterioration of the bell'
no thanks.