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gavinraytoday at 5:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

The Immortal Jellyfish, and functionally the naked mole rat.


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tgvtoday at 5:21 PM

That you can go 300km/h in an F1 car, doesn't mean you can go that fast on a bicycle, even though they're both in the genus "wheel-based vehicles for human transport". The jellyfish is a rather different animal. Trees can grow very old, but there's a reason why you didn't use those as an example: too far from human biology. That jellyfish may be at a similar distance.

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moffkalasttoday at 5:19 PM

The lobster, though they die from being too large to molt.