Is it true that certain animals can live "indefinitely"?

Question

Well I guess nothing can life forever but I believe there are certain creatures e.g. turtles, that do not age in a conventional sort of way.

An article I found states:

"Turtles don't really die of old age," Dr. Raxworthy said. In fact, if turtles didn't get eaten, crushed by an automobile or fall prey to a disease, he said, they might just live indefinitely.

Article here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/12/healthscience/web.1212turtles.php

Are there any other creatures similar to turtles?

In response to the first 2 answers, then what was the scientist on about?

Just answered my own question:

http://discovermagazine.com/2002/jun/featturtle

"Blanding's and perhaps also Midland Painted turtles don't senesce— deteriorate physically— as they grow old. They simply don't age."

Answer 1

Definately no for animals...plants perhaps. Turtle do live for a considerable longer time relative to other animals. However, even in ideal conditions such as a zoo, turtles do die. The oldest recorded life of a Madagascan turtle was 230 or so years in a zoo in India...

Answer 2

Yes, other slow moving animals and humans.
Isaac Asimov wrote a wonderful science column for decades in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and most of these were republished in several books. One of these looked at the lifetime of various animals, large and small in terms of heart beats. It turns out that when you consider the fast heartbeats of tiny animals that don't live too long and the slow heartbeats of big animals that live longer, most animals fall in a fairly narrow range, but humans live 4-5 times as long as they "should" for the speed with which they move and the average rate of their heart.

Answer 3

as a figure of speech,......... yes,........ but specifically no.
Theres about 250 species of them, in the Chelonia order of reptiles,........ and they're found over most parts of the world.

Most are aquatic or semi aquatic, and some are also terrestrial.
They range from about 4in to over 7 feet long, with half their species rare or endangered.
They're earths most primitive surviving pre historic reptile,...... with a history spanning back 200 million years.

Answer 4

cancer cells can live forever... or at least they seem to be able to because they can multiply forever without degrading like normal cells.

Answer 5

All I know is that we got the retarded god because everything he created dies.