Interesting news articles on the BBC’s website today discuss animals with extraordinarily long life-spans, including a lobster that can live to age 85 and a jellyfish that is essentially immortal, and how time-lapse photography has revealed how emperor penguin huddles function to keep all the group members warm at -45 degrees C. Well worth a read.
Immortal animals and how emperor penguins keep warm
June 2, 2011 by Sam - TigerLives.org
Posted in Birds, Invertebrates, Mammals, Research News | Tagged American lobster, Aptenodytes forsteri, Arctica islandica, Brandt's bat, emperor penguin, Heterocephalus glaber, Homarus americanus, immortal animal species, jellyfish, long-lived animal species, Myotis brandti, naked mole-rats, quahog clam, Turritopsis dohrnii | Leave a Comment
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