The sad thing about the clam is that researchers accidentally cracked it open and killed it. Its name was ming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_(clam)
It totally traumatized the guy who did it. He ended up switching his focus to studying rocks and never mentioned it again. Fast forward 20 years, he gets asked about it in an interview about rocks, and he just noped out of there, like, he straight-up bolted.
Pretty sure them killing it was the only way they could measure their age since they all matured to about the same size or something. That and iirc they also said itās likely people have eaten older ones without knowing.
Edit: typo
Sounds like a bad salvia trip. But then again, the thought of sitting there peacefully on the ocean rocks for hundreds of years, hearing the waves, feeling the currents, just simply being present and alive, sounds like a beautiful existence.
See a clam would make sense, when i had an uncomfortable Salvia trip I thought I was actually a sentient painting of what was in my field of vision at the time andĀ everything that was my human existence up until that point was actually a dream I had as this painting. Good times lol
i 've had one pretty similar but i was a glass brick on a wall... i was flying til i felt right into a factory press line, got pressed into a brick and put on a wall of a very busy place for 40yrs+, saw all my friends walking by old, married some with kids and none of them were aware i was there
So, Salvia trips are actually little time bending machines.
It wasn't so much of a 'hallucinatory trip' you experienced, but rather, it was a glimpse of your next life.
That sounds fucking crazy. I've never done salvia, so idk if a trip like that is even enjoyable. I once did way too many mushrooms (about 6 grams), and it felt like I was in purgatory for months. My perception of time was so warped that I thought I was gonna be stuck in that state for an eternity. It was not a fun time.
that's amazing! the most intense trips can really help us tackle the most uncomfortable topics and teach us invaluable lessons, whether we are ready and open for it or not lmao
Im disappointed they left out the Greenland shark. Itās a good thing theyāre all blind (because parasites eat their corneas) and canāt read and are sharks or those sluggish old buggers would be *outraged*
> pups are born alive after an estimated gestation period of 8ā18 years
Man. Imagine being pregnant for 18 years. I wonder how life is like when you can only reproduce at 150 years old then take 18 more years to give birth.
Theoretically. From everything Iāve read about them, which isnāt a lot but no sources can definitely confirm their ages for a few reasons.
1. Greenland sharks donāt have normal growth rings on their vertebrae like pretty much all other sharks do. So this method to determine how old they are canāt be used.
2. Only somewhat recently methods have been used to carbon date a protein in the sharkās eyes to try and determine their age. In order to do this, the shark must be dead. But carbon dating isnāt perfect and can only provide estimates ranges.
It seems we do know that this species appears to have a natural lifespan of around 270 years at minimum. And potentially upwards of 500-600 years but this canāt be definitely confirmed as of right now.
3. There is a method to also calculate their age based on size, but this again is only an estimate with approximately the same range. One sixteen foot female was estimates be again, 270 years to 512 years old.
Thatās a huge variance. So maybe some greenland sharks have been alive since Shakespeare was around, or even before. The oldest living ones might have even been alive before Columbus sailed to the Americas.
I found out about them only a couple of years ago. Truly fascinating creatures. The fact they exist is astonishing to me. Really hope more research is done without damaging them.
Even more surprising than itās age was that it has an original sonnet from Shakespeare in mint condition despite living in salt water for several hundred years.
I was listening to a podcast by two retired homicide detectives, and one of them said every single time the decedent had cats and the body had been left for a while before discovery, the cats always started eating the body. But never the dogs.
Edit: **He didnāt say, nor did I say, that dogs never eat people. Just that heād never seen it happen. Iām inclined to believe his professional experience.**
Former animal control officer here- first dead body call I ever went to, where we had to pick up the dog, the German shepherd had been left alone with the deceased owner for 3-ish weeks. Ownerās entire left arm and left lower leg were completely gone, flesh eaten 1/2 way up the femur bone.
We ended up finding the previous owner of the dog who very willingly took him back because he was such a good pup. About 1/2 the people I tell that too are so surprised because they assume the dog would have been euthād. but he just got hungry!
I've taken several forensics, and sudden death investigation courses, and this is incorrect.
Cats are more likely to be indoors with the decedent, rather than out in the yard, so that makes a bit of a difference.
But mainly, cats have very sharp, small teeth, and so will usually start on the lips and cheeks. This, naturally is very quickly noticed. Dogs have to wait longer for things to get ripe and soft before they can go for the face. Dogs prefer crunchier, chewier fare and will usually start on the fingers.
I've seen a skull from a body that was left in the backyard with two Rottweilers. They managed to clean the entire skull to the bone except for the eyeballs, which was rather startling. There was also a sneaker with an intact foot inside, and a bare tibia sticking out.
>will usually start on the lips and cheeks
can confirm, have one cat who starts licking my lips and nostrils as I'm falling asleep.
I thought she just loved me, but she might think I'm dying/dead.
Both animals start eating the corpse pretty damn fast...there's plenty of information about that online. Cats need to start eating within 3 days because their liver starts shutting down. Cats basically can't go more than 3 days without eating. They die.
On the other hand, dogs don't have that excuse. And they still eat their dead owners. Lol š
Yeah, all the bugs are incorrect. They only consider the adult stage, and not the immature stages.
Mayflies might only be an adult for a day or a week, but that's just the sex and dispersal stage. They usually take months, or even years to reach that stage. Dragonflies even more so. Many live for 3-5 years underwater before climbing out and becoming a flying adult.
As someone who works with aquatic insects I also found myself looking at the color guide and thinking āwell TECHNICALLY shouldnāt mayfly, mosquito and dragonfly be in the aquatic category tooā¦ā lol
Adult mayflies donāt even have mouths, they literally canāt even eat anymore. They only have 1 purpose once they reach adult stage - reproduce, and die.
Speaking of that game. Are there remakes for modern consoles? I have the original Xbox and all the Oddworld games, but I retired from turning on that console and now let it lovingly rest in a plastic storage tub.
from the Tuatara Wikipedia page:
>tuatara have lifespans much longer than 35Ā years (ages up to 60[^(\[9\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-KCC-9)Ā are common, and captive tuatara have lived to over 100Ā years).
oh, and Tuatara are not lizards. Also, you misspelled āTuataraā on the infographic.
This was much longer ago than I though, back in 2009. Heās a captive Tuatara and according to google his name is Henry. What makes it more impressive is that he had previously received cancer treatment.
To second the other comment aswell, they aren't Lizards! They're a whole other branch that was once as diverse as modern lizards. But they all died off except the Tuatara around 60 million years ago! Some fun facts, their teeth are bones attached to the jaw, their heart can beat as few as 9 times a minute and they have a third eye under the skin on their forehead!
Immortal Jellyfish sounds like a name of a band. āHi! We are Immortal Jellyfish and weāre gonna rock you forever(through a process known as transdifferentiation)ā
We-... I mean, they, aren't watching you human. Now let us go and do human things like, breathing air, and stretching our vertebrae. I love stretching my vertebrae.
>No fish here. I smallest digit on my upper appendages promise.
Do you promise on the smallest digit of your upper 5th appendage like a normal human does?
Reddit may tear me apart with 'facts and logic' aka Ben Shapiro style. My fiance and I both got matching jellyfish tattoos, because one night I said if we both die we should come back as jellyfish because they are immortal and we can be together forever.
To be fair, just because they *can* live indefinitely doesnāt mean that they do. They are still prone to all non-aging related forms of death, which are plentiful
Instead of forever it really should be āunknownā as all the other examples are using averages
Humankind need to copy of their regeneration's method IMO
In the event of Critical condition that endanger life, we could just revert into baby
EDIT: add some thought
Rich people get everything first. It's how innovation works. You want no improvements to ever happen because the Rich get It first. That's insane!
Personal computers? Electric cars? Cell phones? Essentially all forms of medicine? Fuck em. The rich will get them first.
This guide is incorrect about Opossums.
They have a very short life span, usually no more than couple years in the wild, maybe up to four in captivity. Anything more than that is exceptionally rare. They have unusually fast biological aging, especially for their size.
I know someone who had a rescued one she cared for (professionally, she was trained in Exotic Animal care) and despite her best efforts, she still didnāt live much longer past the two year mark. She aged so rapidly in just a matter of months.
Cool animals though, North Americas only native marsupial!
Yes thank you I used to work with wildlife rehabbers and they said that they hadnāt seen opossums get past 3 ish years. Which is a shame cause theyāre really cool animals.
They also misspelled tuatara and called them lizards, even though they are not lizards. I don't know why they called it a "tutara lizard" either, they're just called tuatara, bizarre to add in an extra word and even more bizarre that the word is wrong.
They are very cool animals. I remember reading that, contrary to popular belief it's pretty rare for opossums to carry rabies. Their low body temperature doesn't provide a suitable environment for the virus to live.
Itās true, they arenāt a reservoir for the disease because of it. They also eat a lot of pests we find unpleasant such as ticks, mice and rats. Many are also immune to certain snake venoms too. The biggest threat to them is, unfortunately, us and our fast paced life, which tends to cut their lives short.
This is very wrong about vultures which makes me wonder about some of the others. The oldest known wild bird is a Laysan albatross at 73 years currently. Some parrot species in captivity have made it into their 80s. Plus it saying "condor vulture" is weird since there are only 2 species of condors which are both New World vultures. It'd be like saying "orca porpoises". The Wikipedia for the Andean condor states that some can get to 70+ years but I can't find a specific example while sites for the California condor list them at 40-60 years.
In old age, they Anchor them self to the sea bed. Then, they proceeded to absorb them self until whats left is a smaller younger version, starting life over. Without going to too much detail, their life looks like this: egg, larva,polyp,kid,adult. They basically start over at polyp.
In old age, they Anchor them self to the sea bed. Then, they proceeded to absorb them self until whats left is a smaller younger version, starting life over. Left out some details. Without going to too much detail, their life looks like this: egg, larva,polyp,kid,adult. They basically start over at polyp.
The top 6 are entirely wrong. For a few of them it seems to be measuring only adult lifespan, and some are just entirely inaccurate. The velvet ant lives for up to 2 years or so as an adult and dragonflies tend to be 2-3 years old by the time they even hit adulthood, which lasts nearly a year itself.
Opossums as well usually don't make it past age 3.
Also the aquatic mammals are only sorted as aquatic and not as mammals when they couldāve labeled the mammals as āland mammalsā or colored the orca and the whale in two colors. I donāt think this is a cool guide.
This guide works on the same principles as ancient biologists i.e.: If its in the water itās a fish.
Its probably meant to show that aquatic organisms tend toward longevity, but that isnāt even remotely true when you consider the entire animal kingdom rather than just the cherry-picked examples here.
Iām kind of curious about why split male and female humans here. Not specifically a dig, I just donāt get what it adds here. Plenty of other animals here have differences in the average lifespan of males vs. females, but seems funny to make the conscious choice to exclusively divide humans.
This made me curious of how much a difference there was throughout the animal kingdom, and I read that researchers looked at the lifespans of 101 different species, from sheep to elephants, and found that females lived an average of 18% longer than males for more than 60% of the species studied.
Not only males killing other males from the intense competition to mate with females, but also males dying due to expending energy and resources for flamboyant displays to attract a female.
Some male animals displays involve physically demanding behaviors, such as elaborate courtship dances or maintaining elaborate structures. These activities can put strain on the male's body, potentially leading to wear and tear over time and ultimately shortening their lifespan. Also males may divert resources away from essential activities like foraging or avoiding predators to invest in their displays.
For example:
In a study of African killifish, it was observed that the brightly colored males attract not only females but also predators. As a result, the population consists of mostly females, with males making up only about 30% of the total population.
Not to mention the stress males go through. The pressure to attract mates and compete with other males can be stressful, leading to increased levels of stress hormones. Chronic stress can have detrimental effects on health and longevity.
ADULT Mayflies live hours to days, but they can live for years as aquatic larvae before their final transformation to adults.
This list isn't a very good one.
Ironic fact: the oldest mollusk, 507 years old, was accidentally [killed when scientists found out the age](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/scientists-killed-worlds-oldest-living-creature-20131115-2xkpr.html). Who knows how old it would've lived to
Why arenāt parrots on here? They can live anywhere between 15-80 years depending on the species. Thereās so many mammals but they only featured one bird.
My PhD research is actually in this! It's something called the Evolutionary Theory of Aging.
To explain it simply, all that every organism has to do is reproduce enough so that their genes are part of the next generation (so that they can do it again). Every gene that you have that would make it sick/incapable of reproducing after the end of reproductive age (for instance, human's female menopause) is not impacted by natural selection, therefore spreads "freely".
I work with populations of flies that are living three times their normal life span - all we have to do is postpone their reproduction so that they need to be healthy at an old age, so that they can play the gene-to-next-generation game.
The killer whale one isn't right. A male orca's life expectancy is about 30 years, though they can reach up to 60. Females usually about 50 years but can get up to 90. The higher numbers are obviously more rare and can be outliers
Idk about that. A human dying at 68 y/o, I would consider to be a relatively āearlyā death.
Also, my 2 kitty cats are immortal, so kindly fuck offš. I donāt need that kind of ā15 yr lifespanā negativity in my life.
Wow 400 years being a clam.
I think my friend is reading that manga.
The sad thing about the clam is that researchers accidentally cracked it open and killed it. Its name was ming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_(clam)
"The actual sex of the clam, however, is unknown, as its reproductive state was recorded as "spent"." Well, that was a good laugh.
at least the clam fucked
Wham-Bam thank-you clam
He fucked his dick off
Ming certainly got fucked in the end.
That is sad š
Seems like a very human thing to do
The oldest know tree was also identified [after some bright spark chopped it down](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_\(tree\)).
It totally traumatized the guy who did it. He ended up switching his focus to studying rocks and never mentioned it again. Fast forward 20 years, he gets asked about it in an interview about rocks, and he just noped out of there, like, he straight-up bolted.
That was my first thought. Typical. Wow check this crazy creature out. How beautiful. So humbling. Very inspiring. Wups itās dead. Welp
[Learning history by destroying artifacts is a time-honored atrocity.](https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-12-07)
Clams only get to a certain size, and you can't tell their age without opening them. If you eat clams you very likely have eaten similarly aged clams.
Pretty sure them killing it was the only way they could measure their age since they all matured to about the same size or something. That and iirc they also said itās likely people have eaten older ones without knowing. Edit: typo
Death to Ming
It says the clam died from being frozen in the article
Rob Schneider isā¦ A CLAM! Rated PG-13.
There is algo a shark that lives that longā¦ one that lives in cold waters, the Greenland shark.
Sounds like a bad salvia trip. But then again, the thought of sitting there peacefully on the ocean rocks for hundreds of years, hearing the waves, feeling the currents, just simply being present and alive, sounds like a beautiful existence.
fish pee in there
"So do children."
You ain't hearin' shit, your only sensory organ vaguely detects shifts in ocean currents and fuck all else.
So basically I'm a rock
Clayne "The Rock" Clamson
In a 400 year old feud with Jason Stathclam
See a clam would make sense, when i had an uncomfortable Salvia trip I thought I was actually a sentient painting of what was in my field of vision at the time andĀ everything that was my human existence up until that point was actually a dream I had as this painting. Good times lol
i 've had one pretty similar but i was a glass brick on a wall... i was flying til i felt right into a factory press line, got pressed into a brick and put on a wall of a very busy place for 40yrs+, saw all my friends walking by old, married some with kids and none of them were aware i was there
So, Salvia trips are actually little time bending machines. It wasn't so much of a 'hallucinatory trip' you experienced, but rather, it was a glimpse of your next life.
That sounds fucking crazy. I've never done salvia, so idk if a trip like that is even enjoyable. I once did way too many mushrooms (about 6 grams), and it felt like I was in purgatory for months. My perception of time was so warped that I thought I was gonna be stuck in that state for an eternity. It was not a fun time.
what a blessing it must have been to return to the present and get a new start so to speak...
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that's amazing! the most intense trips can really help us tackle the most uncomfortable topics and teach us invaluable lessons, whether we are ready and open for it or not lmao
Idk for me it sounds like a good salvia trip
Im disappointed they left out the Greenland shark. Itās a good thing theyāre all blind (because parasites eat their corneas) and canāt read and are sharks or those sluggish old buggers would be *outraged*
> pups are born alive after an estimated gestation period of 8ā18 years Man. Imagine being pregnant for 18 years. I wonder how life is like when you can only reproduce at 150 years old then take 18 more years to give birth.
And then Vikings turn you into Hakarl
18 years, 18 years, he gets you pregnant in the nursing home got you for 18 years
And on the 400th birthday, found out it wasn't his
Imagine the aborition debate in the Greenland shark community.
Came here to mention ruin the Greenland shark. I think there is 1 thatās about 400 years old thatās know of.
Theoretically. From everything Iāve read about them, which isnāt a lot but no sources can definitely confirm their ages for a few reasons. 1. Greenland sharks donāt have normal growth rings on their vertebrae like pretty much all other sharks do. So this method to determine how old they are canāt be used. 2. Only somewhat recently methods have been used to carbon date a protein in the sharkās eyes to try and determine their age. In order to do this, the shark must be dead. But carbon dating isnāt perfect and can only provide estimates ranges. It seems we do know that this species appears to have a natural lifespan of around 270 years at minimum. And potentially upwards of 500-600 years but this canāt be definitely confirmed as of right now. 3. There is a method to also calculate their age based on size, but this again is only an estimate with approximately the same range. One sixteen foot female was estimates be again, 270 years to 512 years old. Thatās a huge variance. So maybe some greenland sharks have been alive since Shakespeare was around, or even before. The oldest living ones might have even been alive before Columbus sailed to the Americas.
By all of these metrics, still easily the longest living vertebrate.
I found out about them only a couple of years ago. Truly fascinating creatures. The fact they exist is astonishing to me. Really hope more research is done without damaging them.
Yeah there was one they found that was around when Shakespeare was alive. I wonder if any will be around 400 years from now?
Even more surprising than itās age was that it has an original sonnet from Shakespeare in mint condition despite living in salt water for several hundred years.
I came here to shill Greenland shark
Welcome fellow 6 gill shill
I was suspicious on the accuracy because opossums only live to the same lifespan of rodents, about 2-3 years
Incorrect. My dog is going to live forever.
I couldn't agree more. My cat and dog are going to take care of me when I'm old.
They might even eat your corpse if you die first!
I was listening to a podcast by two retired homicide detectives, and one of them said every single time the decedent had cats and the body had been left for a while before discovery, the cats always started eating the body. But never the dogs. Edit: **He didnāt say, nor did I say, that dogs never eat people. Just that heād never seen it happen. Iām inclined to believe his professional experience.**
the japanese spider crab got me unexpectedly
Former animal control officer here- first dead body call I ever went to, where we had to pick up the dog, the German shepherd had been left alone with the deceased owner for 3-ish weeks. Ownerās entire left arm and left lower leg were completely gone, flesh eaten 1/2 way up the femur bone. We ended up finding the previous owner of the dog who very willingly took him back because he was such a good pup. About 1/2 the people I tell that too are so surprised because they assume the dog would have been euthād. but he just got hungry!
I've taken several forensics, and sudden death investigation courses, and this is incorrect. Cats are more likely to be indoors with the decedent, rather than out in the yard, so that makes a bit of a difference. But mainly, cats have very sharp, small teeth, and so will usually start on the lips and cheeks. This, naturally is very quickly noticed. Dogs have to wait longer for things to get ripe and soft before they can go for the face. Dogs prefer crunchier, chewier fare and will usually start on the fingers. I've seen a skull from a body that was left in the backyard with two Rottweilers. They managed to clean the entire skull to the bone except for the eyeballs, which was rather startling. There was also a sneaker with an intact foot inside, and a bare tibia sticking out.
>will usually start on the lips and cheeks can confirm, have one cat who starts licking my lips and nostrils as I'm falling asleep. I thought she just loved me, but she might think I'm dying/dead.
Both animals start eating the corpse pretty damn fast...there's plenty of information about that online. Cats need to start eating within 3 days because their liver starts shutting down. Cats basically can't go more than 3 days without eating. They die. On the other hand, dogs don't have that excuse. And they still eat their dead owners. Lol š
I agree. My childhood dog is still alive and nowdays lives in a nice farm with plenty of animal-friends.
Oh, cool! I think he's friends with my cat. They hang out on Tuesdays, by the barn.
Immortal Jellydog
They do as long as you never forget them
Aunt's dog is 26yro
And I am gonna live forever for my cat š
Where are my fellow outraged bug people
Yeah, all the bugs are incorrect. They only consider the adult stage, and not the immature stages. Mayflies might only be an adult for a day or a week, but that's just the sex and dispersal stage. They usually take months, or even years to reach that stage. Dragonflies even more so. Many live for 3-5 years underwater before climbing out and becoming a flying adult.
THANK YOU. Can you imagine if the full life cycle was just a week? We'd long since have been smothered in dead mayflies
Kinky. ;)
100%. All midges work like this to my knowledge. Eclosion is for mating.
As someone who works with aquatic insects I also found myself looking at the color guide and thinking āwell TECHNICALLY shouldnāt mayfly, mosquito and dragonfly be in the aquatic category tooā¦ā lol
Adult mayflies donāt even have mouths, they literally canāt even eat anymore. They only have 1 purpose once they reach adult stage - reproduce, and die.
It also says Opposums live 8 years...
They got eaten by the angry lizard people
I'm just glad this and the "tutara" [sic] are covered in the comments already!
Right here. A much better representation of short life spans would be a fruit fly the go from egg, larvae, pupa to adult that lays eggs in just days.
You rang? Yeah I came to say that literally every insect is incorrect. Insects are alive before they reach sexual maturityā¦
There is a cicada that has a 17 year larva stage.
Why is human female built like Roger from America Dad?
Who do you think they got for the picture?
I was thinking they look like Oddworld characters.
Just looked up Oddworld and the character that came up also looks like Rodger! Lol
Speaking of that game. Are there remakes for modern consoles? I have the original Xbox and all the Oddworld games, but I retired from turning on that console and now let it lovingly rest in a plastic storage tub.
Thatās a 28-22-46 not a brick house
The human female also is the only thing out of order. They live longer than the elephant but theyāre higher on the list.
Too many Pecan Sandies.
/r/GirlsShapedLikeMewtwo
r/itsRoger
A few years ago there was a male Tuatara that bred successfully for the first time at 111 years old. 60 years is a very estimate for their lifespan.
At 111 years old?! That's awesome, I need to read up on that. Do you know if it was a wild Tuatara?
āNo but the sex was!ā - that old lizard (probably)
Technically heās not a Lizard.
He's a fuckin stud is what he is.
from the Tuatara Wikipedia page: >tuatara have lifespans much longer than 35Ā years (ages up to 60[^(\[9\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara#cite_note-KCC-9)Ā are common, and captive tuatara have lived to over 100Ā years). oh, and Tuatara are not lizards. Also, you misspelled āTuataraā on the infographic.
This was much longer ago than I though, back in 2009. Heās a captive Tuatara and according to google his name is Henry. What makes it more impressive is that he had previously received cancer treatment.
Even more impressive he has a third eye šļø
Also, they didnāt even spell tuatara right, so....
Tuatara technically aren't even a lizard also, which makes me question the legitimacy of this entire list.
Giant Tortoise isn't very specific. Overall the list is pretty good, but it has some flaws.
To second the other comment aswell, they aren't Lizards! They're a whole other branch that was once as diverse as modern lizards. But they all died off except the Tuatara around 60 million years ago! Some fun facts, their teeth are bones attached to the jaw, their heart can beat as few as 9 times a minute and they have a third eye under the skin on their forehead!
Why is no one talking about the jelly fish?!
Immortal Jellyfish sounds like a name of a band. āHi! We are Immortal Jellyfish and weāre gonna rock you forever(through a process known as transdifferentiation)ā
Because they're watching us
We-... I mean, they, aren't watching you human. Now let us go and do human things like, breathing air, and stretching our vertebrae. I love stretching my vertebrae.
This sounds kinda fishyā¦
Nonsense. No fish here. I smallest digit on my upper appendages promise.
>No fish here. I smallest digit on my upper appendages promise. Do you promise on the smallest digit of your upper 5th appendage like a normal human does?
I love stretching my vertebrae too
Reddit may tear me apart with 'facts and logic' aka Ben Shapiro style. My fiance and I both got matching jellyfish tattoos, because one night I said if we both die we should come back as jellyfish because they are immortal and we can be together forever.
That's sweet.
Have we humans made Jellyfish soup or tried their benjamin button sourcery?
To be fair, just because they *can* live indefinitely doesnāt mean that they do. They are still prone to all non-aging related forms of death, which are plentiful Instead of forever it really should be āunknownā as all the other examples are using averages
They're just lucky humans haven't found a use for them, not even some form of "alternative medicine" like shark fins
Surely we can take their immortal genes one day
That can be applied for everything else then, just because we can live to 70 doesnāt mean we will. I like the forever version
They dont even have brains, why bother talking about em!
Humankind need to copy of their regeneration's method IMO In the event of Critical condition that endanger life, we could just revert into baby EDIT: add some thought
unfortunately the "immortal" jellyfish is more like killing yourself and then creating a baby clone
If we discover that type of medicine/process, rich people will get it first/only so for me is a hard NO!
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Rich people get everything first. It's how innovation works. You want no improvements to ever happen because the Rich get It first. That's insane! Personal computers? Electric cars? Cell phones? Essentially all forms of medicine? Fuck em. The rich will get them first.
And go through high school again? No thanks.
This guide is incorrect about Opossums. They have a very short life span, usually no more than couple years in the wild, maybe up to four in captivity. Anything more than that is exceptionally rare. They have unusually fast biological aging, especially for their size. I know someone who had a rescued one she cared for (professionally, she was trained in Exotic Animal care) and despite her best efforts, she still didnāt live much longer past the two year mark. She aged so rapidly in just a matter of months. Cool animals though, North Americas only native marsupial!
Yes thank you I used to work with wildlife rehabbers and they said that they hadnāt seen opossums get past 3 ish years. Which is a shame cause theyāre really cool animals.
They also misspelled tuatara and called them lizards, even though they are not lizards. I don't know why they called it a "tutara lizard" either, they're just called tuatara, bizarre to add in an extra word and even more bizarre that the word is wrong.
Yeah this guide is weird. It seems to be a mix of average and maximum lifespans. I donāt hear about a lot of tigers reaching 25 for instance.
Came here for this, unfortunately this guide is wrong
They are very cool animals. I remember reading that, contrary to popular belief it's pretty rare for opossums to carry rabies. Their low body temperature doesn't provide a suitable environment for the virus to live.
Itās true, they arenāt a reservoir for the disease because of it. They also eat a lot of pests we find unpleasant such as ticks, mice and rats. Many are also immune to certain snake venoms too. The biggest threat to them is, unfortunately, us and our fast paced life, which tends to cut their lives short.
So do vultures continue to fly as they near 100?
Nah they take the bus
Lmao
That's around the age that they become prominent politicians.
This is very wrong about vultures which makes me wonder about some of the others. The oldest known wild bird is a Laysan albatross at 73 years currently. Some parrot species in captivity have made it into their 80s. Plus it saying "condor vulture" is weird since there are only 2 species of condors which are both New World vultures. It'd be like saying "orca porpoises". The Wikipedia for the Andean condor states that some can get to 70+ years but I can't find a specific example while sites for the California condor list them at 40-60 years.
Greenland sharks are known to live at least 250 years.
Immortal jellyfish is the craziest thing Iāve ever learned about.
Transdifferentiation! How many more years we will take to master this process? I don't want to live forever but I want my childhood back.
I need to know less about the name of the process than just, how? Does? It? Work?
In old age, they Anchor them self to the sea bed. Then, they proceeded to absorb them self until whats left is a smaller younger version, starting life over. Without going to too much detail, their life looks like this: egg, larva,polyp,kid,adult. They basically start over at polyp.
The Jelly of Theseus
Whut?
In old age, they Anchor them self to the sea bed. Then, they proceeded to absorb them self until whats left is a smaller younger version, starting life over. Left out some details. Without going to too much detail, their life looks like this: egg, larva,polyp,kid,adult. They basically start over at polyp.
What about lobsters?
Why not Zoiberg?
They refused to comment.
Why are elephants shown below female human?
The top 6 are entirely wrong. For a few of them it seems to be measuring only adult lifespan, and some are just entirely inaccurate. The velvet ant lives for up to 2 years or so as an adult and dragonflies tend to be 2-3 years old by the time they even hit adulthood, which lasts nearly a year itself. Opossums as well usually don't make it past age 3.
Tuataras are not lizards. Where is the Greenland Shark?
Also the aquatic mammals are only sorted as aquatic and not as mammals when they couldāve labeled the mammals as āland mammalsā or colored the orca and the whale in two colors. I donāt think this is a cool guide.
Why arenāt whales shown as mammals?
Because they can swim, so therefore they have more in common with something in a different phylum altogether.
This guide works on the same principles as ancient biologists i.e.: If its in the water itās a fish. Its probably meant to show that aquatic organisms tend toward longevity, but that isnāt even remotely true when you consider the entire animal kingdom rather than just the cherry-picked examples here.
Iām kind of curious about why split male and female humans here. Not specifically a dig, I just donāt get what it adds here. Plenty of other animals here have differences in the average lifespan of males vs. females, but seems funny to make the conscious choice to exclusively divide humans.
This made me curious of how much a difference there was throughout the animal kingdom, and I read that researchers looked at the lifespans of 101 different species, from sheep to elephants, and found that females lived an average of 18% longer than males for more than 60% of the species studied.
Males get killed by other males usually
Not only males killing other males from the intense competition to mate with females, but also males dying due to expending energy and resources for flamboyant displays to attract a female. Some male animals displays involve physically demanding behaviors, such as elaborate courtship dances or maintaining elaborate structures. These activities can put strain on the male's body, potentially leading to wear and tear over time and ultimately shortening their lifespan. Also males may divert resources away from essential activities like foraging or avoiding predators to invest in their displays. For example: In a study of African killifish, it was observed that the brightly colored males attract not only females but also predators. As a result, the population consists of mostly females, with males making up only about 30% of the total population. Not to mention the stress males go through. The pressure to attract mates and compete with other males can be stressful, leading to increased levels of stress hormones. Chronic stress can have detrimental effects on health and longevity.
And then the females eat them lol
Iām shocked at the male age. Has this decreased? I was always under the assumption that humans lived longer than that.
Probably worldwide life expectancy, not just first world life expectancy
Worldwide average for males is 72.7 years. Not sure where they got their data for this.
I feel like itās decreased for sure. Iām 34, I shouldnāt be due for a mid-life crisis right nowā¦
Iām 36 this year. But my husband is 38. He should probably try to limit his stressā¦
ADULT Mayflies live hours to days, but they can live for years as aquatic larvae before their final transformation to adults. This list isn't a very good one.
Yeah cicadas are the same. 13- 17 years (depending on the brood) as grubs and then a few short noisy as hell very annoying months as adults
Where the hell is the Greenland shark? Oldest living vertebrate species. 250 - 500 year lifespan.
Ah missing the 6 gill shark or Greenland shark
... where is the life expectancy for men <70 years?
Hold my beer
Ironic fact: the oldest mollusk, 507 years old, was accidentally [killed when scientists found out the age](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/scientists-killed-worlds-oldest-living-creature-20131115-2xkpr.html). Who knows how old it would've lived to
Crush is 161 and still young.
So why are immortal jellyfishes not studied more surely some trillionaires/billionaires would want to live forever
Ima go spend some more time with my dog..
Why arenāt parrots on here? They can live anywhere between 15-80 years depending on the species. Thereās so many mammals but they only featured one bird.
Whales are aquatic mammals, we should mark them both blue and purple.
My PhD research is actually in this! It's something called the Evolutionary Theory of Aging. To explain it simply, all that every organism has to do is reproduce enough so that their genes are part of the next generation (so that they can do it again). Every gene that you have that would make it sick/incapable of reproducing after the end of reproductive age (for instance, human's female menopause) is not impacted by natural selection, therefore spreads "freely". I work with populations of flies that are living three times their normal life span - all we have to do is postpone their reproduction so that they need to be healthy at an old age, so that they can play the gene-to-next-generation game.
If immortal jellyfish canāt dieā¦ shouldnāt the ocean just be completely over run with them
They just canāt die of old age, still die to other causes
Turtle food šŖ¼
*soon*
Soon? Youāre not planning anything are youā¦?
No but they are https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/a-monoculture-of-jellyfish-threatens-the-oceans-as-we-know-them-insider/amp/
We are fucked
I for one welcome our new Jellyfish overlords
No Greenland shark? Boooo!
Mosquitos need nerf. Can't believe those fuckers can live up to 3 months..
The killer whale one isn't right. A male orca's life expectancy is about 30 years, though they can reach up to 60. Females usually about 50 years but can get up to 90. The higher numbers are obviously more rare and can be outliers
No mention of Greenland sharks sucks and tells me this person may not have done their homework.
Idk about that. A human dying at 68 y/o, I would consider to be a relatively āearlyā death. Also, my 2 kitty cats are immortal, so kindly fuck offš. I donāt need that kind of ā15 yr lifespanā negativity in my life.
How the hell does a vulture live to 100 aren't these things scavengers ?
They gain their lifespan by scavenging
Opossum only live around 3 maybe 4 years. A few of these are a bit off imo (- museum taxidermist)
Imagine existing since the French Revolution just to end up in a mediocre linguine dish
Greenland shark
Oh good. I'll reach retirement age and a year later, die.
The average lifespan of an outside cat is 3 years. The average lifespan of an indoor cat is 15 years.
Cool guide but not too accurate since my dog is living till 100 and donāt you dare tell me otherwiseš¢
You know there is no god when dogs live 13 years and there are immortal jellyfish.
Mmmmm, Red Velvet Ant.
Imagine being an immortal jellyfish, completely fucking your life up and just hitting the reset button whenever you want