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*The [[Family of Blood]]'s species had a natural lifespan of only 3 months. The [[Tenth Doctor]] prolonged their lifespans to be indefinite. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
*The [[Family of Blood]]'s species had a natural lifespan of only 3 months. The [[Tenth Doctor]] prolonged their lifespans to be indefinite. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
*The [[Silurian]] (and possibly [[Sea Devil]]) lifespan was 200 to 250 years. Silurian-Sea Devil hybrids had a shorter lifespan due to cellular degradation. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice]]'')
*The [[Silurian]] (and possibly [[Sea Devil]]) lifespan was 200 to 250 years. Silurian-Sea Devil hybrids had a shorter lifespan due to cellular degradation. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice]]'')
*The [[human]] lifespan was uncertain, though 80 was considered extremely frail for the [[2000s]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[A Day in the Death]]'', [[BBCR]]: ''[[The Devil and Miss Carew]]'') and (heavily surgically altered) [[Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17|Cassandra]], [[far future|five billion years later]], once colloquially referred to not looking a day over two thousand. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'') Using a [[time store]] to maintain youth, [[Eleanor (Golden Age)|the Duchess]] and other former [[Torchwood India]] personnel lived for at least 100 years. ([[BBCR]]: ''[[Golden Age]]'') [[Miracle Day]] in [[2011]] stretched the human lifespan indefinitely, ceasing death, but not Ageing. ([[TW]]: ''[[The New World]]'')
*The [[human]] lifespan varied wildly throughout history. By the early 21st century the average life expectancy was in the early 80s, though for many 80 was considered extremely frail. ([[TW]]: ''[[A Day in the Death]]'', [[BBCR]]: ''[[The Devil and Miss Carew]]''). There were also cases of humans having their lifespan extended artificially, such was the case of the heavily surgically altered [[Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17|Cassandra]], who existed in the [[far future]], and who once colloquially referred to not looking a day over two thousand. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'') Using a [[time store]] to maintain youth, [[Eleanor (Golden Age)|the Duchess]] and other former [[Torchwood India]] personnel lived for at least 100 years. ([[BBCR]]: ''[[Golden Age]]'') [[Miracle Day]] in [[2011]] stretched the human lifespan indefinitely, ceasing death, but not aging, although this was only a temporary change. ([[TW]]: ''[[The New World]]''); the opposite is true of [[Jack Harkness]] who was rendered effectively immortal by the [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'') and was known to have lived thousands of years ([[TW]]: ''[[Miracle Day]]''), with unconfirmed reports he may have lived on for billions of years, eventually evolving into the [[Face of Boe]] ([[TW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'').
**Humans converted to [[pig slave]]s barely lasted weeks. ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]''/''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
**Humans converted to [[pig slave]]s, however, barely lasted weeks. ([[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]''/''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
*The [[Ood]] had a very long, unspecified lifespan as [[Ood Sigma]] lived through 100 years and didn't show any visible signs of age. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
*The [[Ood]] had a very long, unspecified lifespan as [[Ood Sigma]] lived through 100 years and didn't show any visible signs of age. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
*The average [[Ice Warrior]] lifespan was 300 years ([[NA]]: ''[[GodEngine]]''), although some lived over 400 years. ([[NA]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]'')
*The average [[Ice Warrior]] lifespan was 300 years ([[NA]]: ''[[GodEngine]]''), although some lived over 400 years. ([[NA]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]'')
*The inhabitants of [[Anu]] had lifespans of almost a thousand years. ([[NA]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys]]'')
*The inhabitants of [[Anu]] had lifespans of almost a thousand years. ([[NA]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys]]'')
*[[The Face of Boe|At least one member of Boekind]] lived slightly less than five billion years. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Long Game]]'', ''[[Gridlock]]'')
*[[The Face of Boe|At least one member of Boekind]] lived slightly less than five billion years. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Long Game]]'', ''[[Gridlock]]''); it has been suggested that this might have been an evolved version of human [[Jack Harkness]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'').
*The [[Jixen]] had a lifespan of 800 years. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'')
*The [[Jixen]] had a lifespan of 800 years. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'')
*The [[Time Lord]]s (and likely [[Gallifreyan]]s) had extremely long lifespans. [[Quences|One Time Lord]] lived to at least 7000 years. ([[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'') The [[Second Doctor]] stated that Time Lords could live forever "barring accidents". ([[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]'') The life span of a human/time lord hybrid created by travelling through the time vortex has not been stated.
*The [[Time Lord]]s (and likely [[Gallifreyan]]s - it remains a matter of debate whether the two are synonymous) had extremely long lifespans. [[Quences|One Time Lord]] lived to at least 7000 years. ([[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'') The [[Second Doctor]] stated that Time Lords could live forever "barring accidents". ([[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]'') The life span of a human/time lord hybrid created by travelling through the time vortex has not been stated, but they also possess the ability to regenerate ([[DW]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]''); the only known example, [[River Song]], was killed prematurely rather than living out her life naturally ([[DW]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead]]'').
*[[Osirian]]s were able to live for thousands of years. ([[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'')
*[[Osirian]]s were able to live for thousands of years. ([[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'')
*[[Prisoner Zero]]'s species were able to live for thousands of years, considering 12 years to be 'a pit stop'. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
*[[Prisoner Zero]]'s species were able to live for thousands of years, considering 12 years to be 'a pit stop'. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
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*The lifespan of someone brought back with a [[Resurrection Gauntlet]] seems to depend on the amount of energy that is in their body after the gauntlet has been destroyed. ([[TW]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'')
*The lifespan of someone brought back with a [[Resurrection Gauntlet]] seems to depend on the amount of energy that is in their body after the gauntlet has been destroyed. ([[TW]]: ''[[Dead Man Walking]]'')
*The [[firebird]], a creature literally made out of [[fire]], had a lifespan of only one minute. ([[TW]]: ''[[Immortal Sins]]'')
*The [[firebird]], a creature literally made out of [[fire]], had a lifespan of only one minute. ([[TW]]: ''[[Immortal Sins]]'')
*The [[Olympians]] could live for an indefinite length of tim, since they are [[Immortal]].
*The [[Olympians]] could live for an indefinite length of time, since they are [[Immortal]].
 


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 20:56, 8 September 2011

Life span or life expectancy was the average length of time a lifeform would live.

Species lifespans


See also

Lifespan