The many-headed hydra is a real creature that regenerates itself and can live "forever"

[pesco]

Originally published at: The many-headed hydra is a real creature that regenerates itself and can live "forever" | Boing Boing

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[navarro]

@pesco

Unlike the Lernaean Hydra, it doesn’t not guard an entrance into the underworld.

so, doesn’t it or not doesn’t it? not that that is not the question.
whether tis less noble in the mind to not suffer
the slings and arrows of a not unoutrageous fortune
or not to take arms unopposed to a sea of blessings
and by cooperating fail to begin them.

[JohnEightThirty]

@navarro

so, doesn’t it or not doesn’t it?

Well, I wouldn’t say it doesn’t guard a portal to the netherworld.

[Mangochin]

Hail hydra?

[Otherbrother]

That thing looks a little like a cartoon broomstick, and just as impervious to death by axe.

[heh]

I seem to remember from highschool biology that jellyfish (and hence hydra? I dunno. Jellyfish look like hydra for their polyp stage anyway. Almost as if a hydra is a jellyfish which just skips the medusa stage.) are more akin to colonies of more or less independent single celled organisms than a ‘real’ multicellular animal. Which makes the whole grounding-up-to-clump-of-cells and then reorganizing to for a new hydra slightly less unexpected. Still very cool of course. Jellyfish lifecycles are very cool all around. Warning, only enter that wikipedia hole if you have at least 3 hours to spare ;-D

[TomFury13]

About 100 years ago when I was in high school I was fascinated by the hydra, and they are a major reason I got a degree in biology. I wish we had some of the technology then that we have now, like the internet - I would have been much less annoying to my teacher!

[Tamsin_Bailey]

“What is White supremacy?”