The Immortal Jellyfish known scientifically as Turritopsis dohrnii is now officially known as the only immortal creature. The secret to eternal life, as it turns out, is not just living a really, really long time. It’s all about maturity, or rather, the lack of it. The immortal jellyfis...
Of all the fascinating aspects of the jellyfish lifespan, the most unbelievable is the immortal jellyfish. Theimmortal jellyfish(or Turritopsis dohrnii) is a death-defying type of jellyfish found in the Mediterranean Sea and Japanese seas that is physiologically immortal. These jellyfish can actua...
Moon jellyfish are not immortal. They generally live for up to one year. They also fall prey to animals such as larger fish and turtles. How do moon jellyfish die? Moon jellyfish generally live up to a year. They can die because of age or also during predation. Common predators of th...
Due to its unique life cycle, it does not have a fixed lifespan like other jellyfish species. The gene in mitochondrial DNA (mRNA) discovered to be responsible for its transformation is medusae stage-specific and expresses itself tenfold more than in other stages of the life cycle. Immortal...
The immortal jellyfish or “turritopsis dohrnii” as it is known by its scientific name, is the only living creature capable of transforming back into its infant or polyp state. Because it can reverse itslife cyclein this way, it is essentially immortal. It is a tiny jelly, growing up to...
♦ Most jellyfish have a rather short life cycle, only living a few days to a few months. The species of jellyfish called Turritopsis nutricula could be immortal. The reports of this jellyfish claim it can play it’s life cycle in reverse. It can actually move from the adult Medusa ...
one Japanese scientist claims that the jellyfish speciesTurritopsis dorniiis effectively immortal: Full-grown individuals have the ability to revert back to the polyp stage, and thus, theoretically, can cycle endlessly from adult to juvenile form. Unfortunately, this behavior has only been observed in...
They aren’t actually fish. They can make copies of themselves. And some older ones can become young again.
In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in July 2022, scientists from the University of Oviedo in Spain, attempted to shed light on this astounding process by looking into the genes that control the unorthodox life cycle of the immortal jelly...
Life Cycle Immortality Through Transdifferentiation Turritopsis Dohrnii is called the immortal jellyfish because it is the only known animal to be immortal. Whenever it is injured or dying, it can turn its cells back into young cells and start anew. ...