The
immortal jellyfish is an interesting specimen:
How does the immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) live for so long? A leading scientist the stranger cellular science behind the creature's lifespan.
www.sciencefocus.com
Not long from now visible signs of aging will be slowed dramatically once they tinker with the telomere limit. Then time will become the new money. Insert credits to continue.
Amusingly all of this links in with Gilgamesh (whose swagger was CB4'd for the bible) and his quest for immortality which took him to the depths of the ocean...
Life is truly stranger than fiction because fiction is often factual whereas the facts simply aren't. Ever wondered why we head to the stars without first mapping the seas? Which loops us around to the Dogon who said their knowledge came from amphibious beings from other galaxies.