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...
While the life cycle ofT. dohrniimoves in a set manner, these organisms have the unique ability to stop and reverse it. That’s correct. While in their medusa stage, the jellyfish can revert back to the polyp stage. They can do this not just while they are immature medusae,...
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...
jellyfishphylogenyrelativenesstrans-differentiationTurritopsisnutriculaTurritopsis nutricula (T. nutricula) is the one of the known reported organisms that can revert its life cycle to the polyp stage even after becoming sexually mature, defining itself as the only immortal organism in the animal kingdom...
To understand how the immortal jellyfish is able to hack its lifecycle, you first have to dive into how a normal jellyfish ages. Don’t worry, it’s fairly simple. Albeit very very strange. The jellyfish life cycle © Getty Normally, a mere mortal jellyfish passes through five stages...