LIVING LONGER

CHAPTER.8
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WATER MERETRIX IMMORTAL GREENLAN GALAPAGO
BEAR LUSORIA JELLYFISH D SHARK S TORTOISE

CONTENTS
 WATER BEAR ( 물곰 )

 A creature belonging to the Tardigrada

 Life span : 1,500~2,300 years
 The time of appearance : 530 million years ago
 Having four body parts except for the head
 Survive in extreme conditions
(-272 or 151 degrees Celsius/strong radiation/vacuum)
 Absorb some of the bacteria and their genes
→ Survive in a variety of environments
 MERETRIX

LUSORIA ( 대합 )
A creature belonging to the lily family
 Live in sandy mud land on the beach and travel along the al-
gae
 Life span : more than 300 years
 The spawning season : from June to September
 An egg-shaped, covered with a smooth translucent membrane
 IMMORTAL JELLYFISH
( 작은보호탑해파리 )

 Live in Salento Peninsula, Italy, the Mediterranean sea

 Life span : live an infinite life through following cycle
Change into a pupa-like shape
↓
Return to their young form with new cells
↓
Grow back into an adult
(Nobody figures out this mechanism of immortal jellyfish)

 When its body is cut off or the water temperature changes, it

dies.
GREENLAND SHARK
( 그린란드상어 )

Live in the north Atlantic, including Canada, Greenland,

Norway, and Iceland
Live 600 meters in shallow deep sea in the cold current
Life span : 272 years
7m long and weigh nearly a ton
Grow by 1cm a year because of its slow metabolism
Blind due to an copepod parasite parasitic in these eyes
GALAPAGOS TORTOISE
( 갈라파고스땅거북 )

Live only in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands

(being listed as an endangered species)
Life span : about 180 years
1.4 m~1.8m in length and weigh an average of 400 to 500 kg
Store food and water inside the body
→ survive without having food for a year
Eat plant food like plants' berries, cactus, moss, grass, etc.
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