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

We would live to 240 years based on the size of these bats

ScienceDaily - 10-Apr-2019

Vampire bats are extraordinarily long-lived for their size

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.