Immortal Jellyfish Lifespan It turns out that once the adult form of the 4.5 mm-wide species Turritopsis dohrnii have reproduced, they don’t die but transform themselves back into their juvenile polyp state. Does immortal jellyfish turning into a baby again? Simply explained, yes. Here is wh...
The lifespan of a Greenland shark: up to 500 years. The giant barrel sponge: over 2,000 years. But the longest-living animal on planet Earth? The immortal jellyfish, a creature that can seemingly escape from death altogether. Despite only being only three millimetres in diameter on average...
that helps control these TEs. They’ve seen this pathway at work in certain cells that don’t age, like cancer stem cells, and notably, the enigmaticTurritopsis dohrnii, commonly known as the “immortal jellyfish.” By strengthening this pathway in a worm calledCaenorhabditis elegans, the worm...
It is the unique life cycle with transformation back into the polyp state that can result in so many genetically identical offspring and no limit on lifespan. In sexual reproduction, the sperm fertilizes the eggs, after which the egg develops. The jellyfish hatch as larvae, called planula,...