Providing databases and tools for the study of Balaena mysticetus. Has not only been estimated to live over 200 years, making it the longest-lived mammal, but these animals remain disease-free until much more advanced ages than humans can.

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Aging is a natural disease, but a disease nevertheless. Why Sponges Are Potentially Immortal. Who knew that creatures traditionally used by people as natural bath sponges could be the longest-living animals known? One step further from a colony of unicellular animals, an individual sponge is a multicellular and largely immobile animal. These fascinating organisms adopted all sorts of interesting strategies in the fight for survival and they seem to have made it.