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** ''[[Cracked.com]]''{{'}}s [http://www.cracked.com/article_20055_6-unassuming-animals-that-are-secretly-immortal.html 6 Unassuming Animals That Are Secretly Immortal] lists other animal species that don't die of old age, such as lobsters and turtles. |
** ''[[Cracked.com]]''{{'}}s [http://www.cracked.com/article_20055_6-unassuming-animals-that-are-secretly-immortal.html 6 Unassuming Animals That Are Secretly Immortal] lists other animal species that don't die of old age, such as lobsters and turtles. |
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* Scientists in [[Real Life]] have been attempting this type for a very, long, time. Many believe that humans will eventually attain it. There are a substantial number of people who believe that the first bicentenarian-to-be has already been born, and is possibly already an adult. |
* Scientists in [[Real Life]] have been attempting this type for a very, long, time. Many believe that humans will eventually attain it. There are a substantial number of people who believe that the first bicentenarian-to-be has already been born, and is possibly already an adult. |
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* [[Real Life]] example: ''[[wikipedia:Turritopsis nutricula|Turritopsis nutricula]]'' is a species of jellyfish that can revert back to its polyp stage once it becomes sexually mature - it can continually reverse its life cycle, making it technically immortal. In a way similar to [[Merlin Sickness]] |
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* Another [[Real Life]] example: some American Aspen (''Populus tremuloides'') tree stands (groves) are type II immortal. Aspen forms stands of genetically identical trunks with interconnected roots; some trunks die of old age but the stand itself is type II immortal. |
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** Olive is the same. |
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