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masukuma
#1 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 8:23:07 AM
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I have always know about "Biologically Immortal" organisms i.e. creatures that don't age - they just grow and live until they are killed by something (predators, disease) else or stave to death. But apparently there are a number of "Biologically Immortal" vertebrates and apparently crocodiles are one of the few biologically Immortal vertebrates that walk the planet - they die when they starve, get sick or are killed by something else.There is no difference between a 7 year old crocodile and a 100 year crocodile when it comes to agility and speed - just that one is bigger than the other. Theoretically, with an infinite food supply and no disease in captivity - Crocs will become bigger and bigger until one of those conditions of it's death is met - the phenomenon is known as 'Negligible senescence'
In 1957, A hunter shot this crocodile in Australia – It was an 8.1 m (28 feet) long crocodile!
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urstill1
#2 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 9:13:26 PM
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Kobe falls in this 'Negligible senescence' thing. Theirs might be way longer. They just get bigger and bigger.
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#3 Posted : Thursday, August 25, 2016 9:33:11 PM
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urstill1 wrote:
Kobe falls in this 'Negligible senescence' thing. Theirs might be way longer. They just get bigger and bigger.

yes... there was a kobe which lived to be 255 years old and DIED.. .when they did a postmortem they discovered that the kobe died from a liver failure which was complicated by a wound. kama sio hiyo the fellow would be walking around.. lucky bastards...
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#4 Posted : Friday, August 26, 2016 12:29:05 PM
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they say > 75% of the oceans have not been explored...one shudders to think of teh sher size of any negligible senescent creatures there, such as in the marianas trench which is 11km deep
urstill1
#5 Posted : Friday, August 26, 2016 6:58:43 PM
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masukuma wrote:
urstill1 wrote:
Kobe falls in this 'Negligible senescence' thing. Theirs might be way longer. They just get bigger and bigger.

yes... there was a kobe which lived to be 255 years old and DIED.. .when they did a postmortem they discovered that the kobe died from a liver failure which was complicated by a wound. kama sio hiyo the fellow would be walking around.. lucky bastards...


You have to be slow to live that long.
urstill1
#6 Posted : Friday, August 26, 2016 7:02:27 PM
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masukuma wrote:
urstill1 wrote:
Kobe falls in this 'Negligible senescence' thing. Theirs might be way longer. They just get bigger and bigger.

yes... there was a kobe which lived to be 255 years old and DIED.. .when they did a postmortem they discovered that the kobe died from a liver failure which was complicated by a wound. kama sio hiyo the fellow would be walking around.. lucky bastards...


You have to be slow to live that long.
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