Explore the bizarre world of Turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish. Learn about transdifferentiation and how this tiny creature is rewriting the rules of life and death.
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This video was taken in the Republic of Palau – an island nation some 800km east of the Philippines. As a sovereign state it was only born in 1994 but was probably first settled over 3,000 years ago. The tiny island nation was once sold by Spain to Germany, was controled by Japan, taken by […]
Immortal jellyfish invading the world’s oceans
Scientists have found what may be the only animal in the world capable of immortality. The hydrozoans jellyfish is able to revert back to its polyp state – that’s its first stage of live, the stage it is born into and before it starts to mature into an older jellyfish. The process is called transdiffentiation […]
