Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1905 — Animals That Never Die. [ARTICLE]

Animals That Never Die.

At the very bottom of the scale of nature lies a vast class of organisms co simple In form that naturalists hesitate whether the vegetable or the animal kingdom has the more right to number them among its subjects. These animals may be said never to die. Their constitution is so simple and so easily adaptable that they never suffer from disease, and the laws of their being forbid them to grow old. Sexless, they propagate themselves by fission, separating into two or more segments, each of which Is perfectly alive and Independent.