Can animals be immortal?
This question is explored by RocketBoom in an interesting way - providing examples of regeneration in nature, from fungi to jellyfish to...well, I'll let Molly explain.
Nothing lasts forever, but the animals on today's episode stick around a lot longer than the rest of us. Molly
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Today's Rocketboom mentions the NCSU symposium on obese zoo animals and links
Rocketboom interviewed a bunch of young researchers - here is one (check the "related videos" for others):
Father Heart, 2006
If you read the papers or watched TV today, you may have gotten the impression that Edwards announced his run this morning around 9am in front of TV cameras. Wrong! The MSM folks think they still matter and are blind to everything happening outside of their domain.
So that polyp is kind of like a phoenix. Really cool.