by Jess Thomson – Newswwek
A strange, immortal tube-shaped animal has been discovered to regenerate a whole new body from only its mouth to avoid getting old.
This creature, named Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus, a tiny invertebrate that lives on the shells of crabs, is usually immune to aging altogether, but was found to use aging within its body to grow an entirely new body, a study published in the journal Cell Reports found.
