Immortal Animals

If they can, could we?

Resources

AnAge - Database of Animal Ageing and Longevity - Human Ageing Genomic Resources (HAGR)
Curated database of ageing and life history in animals, including extensive longevity records.

Animals and plants that can live forever - BBC Earth
Stem cells seem to be the key in Hydra's lack of cellular ageing

Recent News

Naked Mole Rats Repair DNA Super Efficiently

Fight Aging! - 27-Jun-2018

These rats seem to be almost immune to cancer for unknown reasons

Red coral can live for five hundred years

National Geographic - 31-Mar-2018

Coral living in deeper waters have longer lives.

Calico proves that naked mole-rats do not age

eLife Sciences - 24-Jan-2018

Possible hints where they are focusing their research