• tygerprints@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Pretty sure they have 100 percent mortality rate as most animals do. There are some species of jellyfish that technically are immortal (capable of immortality anyway) - they revert back to a polyp stage and start life over again without dying. But every other animal species, like us humans, does have to bow down to the grim reaper at some point.

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      11 months ago

      “Caterpillar” is not a species. It’s a stage of some animals’ life cycle. It means 99% of catepillars die before they become butterflies or moths or whatever

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, they’re also wrong about jellyfish being the only immortal animals. Gotta love being confidently incorrect…

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          10 months ago

          If there are other immortal animal species, what are they? My comment about jellyfish being immortal was from the article in national Geographic. What are the animals you are thinking of?