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  2. Turritopsis dohrnii - Wikipedia

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    Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the immortal jellyfish, is a species of small, biologically immortal jellyfish [2] [3] found worldwide in temperate to tropic waters. It is one of the few known cases of animals capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary individual.

  3. Biological immortality - Wikipedia

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    Biological immortality. Biological immortality (sometimes referred to as bio-indefinite mortality) is a state in which the rate of mortality from senescence is stable or decreasing, thus decoupling it from chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either throughout their ...

  4. Turritopsis nutricula - Wikipedia

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    Turritopsis nutricula is a small hydrozoan that once reaching adulthood, can transfer its cells back to childhood. This adaptive trait likely evolved in order to extend the life of the individual. Several different species of the genus Turritopsis were formerly classified as T. nutricula, including the "immortal jellyfish" which is now ...

  5. Scientists find clues to what makes 'immortal jellyfish ... - AOL

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    Loaded 0%. CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists in Spain have unlocked the genetic code of the immortal jellyfish - a creature capable of repeatedly reverting into a juvenile state - in hopes of ...

  6. 'Immortal' jellyfish roams Earth's oceans - AOL

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    Meanwhile, a species of jellyfish may have already figured out. The Turritopsis dohrnii is believed to be the only creature in existence capable of continuous 'Immortal' jellyfish roams Earth's oceans

  7. Jellyfish - Wikipedia

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    Jellyfish. Spotted jellies swimming in a Tokyo aquarium. Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa -phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles, although a few are ...

  8. Craspedacusta sowerbii - Wikipedia

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    A specimen in a farming pond (Upstate New York). Craspedacusta sowerbii or peach blossom jellyfish[1] is a species of freshwater hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa cnidarian. Hydromedusan jellyfish differ from scyphozoan jellyfish because they have a muscular, shelf-like structure called a velum on the ventral surface, attached to the bell margin.

  9. Aurelia (cnidarian) - Wikipedia

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    Aurelia is a genus of jellyfish that are commonly called moon jellies, which are in the class Scyphozoa. There are currently 25 accepted species and many that are still not formally described. [1][2][3] The genus was first described in 1816 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in his book Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres (Natural History of ...