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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 7890813" data-attributes="member: 82504">There are species of animal including Kangaroos which grow throughout their lives but exhibit no particular longevity. Some very very long lived species do grow throughout their lives (a type of pine). Technically if they arent growing they are dead. And there are species which do not really age including naked mole rats they do not continue growing.  A lobster grows throughout its life unfortunately it outgrows its ability to make a new shell so to speak conforming to what you say so its growing will kill it although other than that flaw it isn't really otherwise aging.  A truly weird Jellyfish is basically a phoenix reverting to an earlier stage of its lifecycle and regrowing when it "dies" due to trauma (not age).    I think the closest species that CAN grow throughout their lives for certain is colony plants which basically grow sideways by sprouting more bodies with the same genetics the individual bodies can die but it could be seen as growing and receding growing and receding throughout a potentially infinite life much like that jellyfish although without loss of adulthood.This stuff is fun</blockquote>