# "Animals that are impossibly hard to kill"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-that-are-impossibly-hard-to-kill/534509>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 31, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-that-are-impossibly-hard-to-kill/534509 "2010-03-31T23:25:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-that-are-impossibly-hard-to-kill/534509/41 "2010-04-05T18:36:57Z")

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> [@psychonaut](#):
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> Amoebae aren’t animals, though.

THAT part bothered you? I want to hear about “more immortal”. AFAIK, slightly immortal is still immortal (or still mortal, I guess, depending on how you slice it). How can something, animal or not, be more immortal than something else?

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