How long do animals live? [🎞️ thebrainmaze]

This Alien??!! 👽 😆😆

The immortal jellyfish can turn back into a baby when it's old, hurt or hungry. It melts into a blob and grows young again! It can do this forever, it never dies of old age. The only way it dies is if something eats it or it gets sick. transdifferentiation ➡️ reverting its cells back to a baby polyp.

Where TF am I?

What's a Turritopsis Dorhynii @grok ?

Turritopsis dohrnii, often called the immortal jellyfish, is a small species that can revert its life cycle from adult to polyp stage under stress, potentially allowing it to live indefinitely. It's not truly immortal—it can still die from predation or disease—but its regeneration is unique. Fascinating in that lifespan video!

@pixlosopher @Rainmaker1973 How

The immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, achieves its "immortality" through transdifferentiation. When stressed (like starvation or injury), its cells revert the medusa (adult) form back to a polyp (juvenile) stage, restarting the life cycle. This can repeat indefinitely, though it can still die from predation or disease.

@CortinasCentral @pixlosopher @Rainmaker1973 On a cellular level, how?

The immortal jellyfish's transdifferentiation involves cells in the medusa stage dedifferentiating—losing specialized functions—then redifferentiating into polyp cells. This includes apoptosis (cell death) of some cells, proliferation of others, and upregulation of genes for DNA repair, pluripotency (like Piwi and Nanos), and telomere maintenance, allowing repeated rejuvenation under stress.

Need me some of that turritopsis DNA… for research purposes 🙂

Movie idea: a billionaire searches for cure to stay alive forever and decided to extract the DNA of a Turritopsis dohrnii 😄😁

Why??

Tom after 2 years of chasing Jerry around:

Them be like

Humans are not animals, far from it. Sure, same Creator, but we have always had dominion over animals and record history, create tools and art, etc. We also have eternal life...don't forget that. This is just the first step...

Watched this video and realized the fly that kissed me last month is dead, fuck you fly. That’s what you get!!!

Where is the Greenland shark?

Notice how all the animals that live the longest are water creatures...

YO.... HOW TF DAT CLAM GON BE BOUT 500 YEERZ OLD YO???

I wonder what a turritopsis has seen or should I say sensed during it's time

Imagine gettings stressed and that causes you to genetically change back to a juvenile causing you to live forever or until you are killed.

The quahog clam is the specific clam in this video saying just "clam" is inaccurate regular clams live for like 5 years quahogs can live anywhere from 200-500 years with 507 being the longest lived on on record if my memory is right

How was this discovered @grok?

Humans 72 years ? 😩

Fly dey chop 30 days. Noah’s ark floated for 40 days. How come we still have them? Didn’t the couple Noah took die on board? @bastianvanb

Animals' lifespans swing wildly—from mayflies buzzing by in a day to those ancient Greenland sharks clocking 400+ years. But hey, us humans? We get a solid 80-ish on average, plenty of time to outlive the dinos and ponder it all. 🐢 vs. 🦈

Didnt know that there's an immortal creature 😨

That jelly fish is the key to human immortality! I need to take a few bites...

I need a scientist, a laboratory, and unlimited funding. Also a human test patient and one of these things

How? Imortal

wtf are parrots using 60 years on earth for 😭

“Immortal” Not if I can help it 😈

Turtitopsos dohrnii says: To Infinity and beyond

greenland shark?

No one immortal in this world 😃

Turritopsis dohrnii is God !

Gonna start telling people I’m 3.6 rabbits old.

@4real_Emenefee Interesting again!

72 years? Time to lock in

Woah, humans life spans have shortened.