The Mysterious Life of the Immortal Jellyfish

Did you know there's an ocean dweller who defies the laws of biology? Meet Turritopsis dohrnii, often referred to as the 'immortal jellyfish'.

Here's its exceptional life cycle: a mature adult under stress or physical assault, rather than succumbing to death, transforms all of its existing cells into a younger state.

In other words, it regenerates back into a polyp, which is the first stage of life for a jellyfish.

This polyp will then spawn hundreds of identical clones, which mature into jellyfish.

It's not technically 'immortality' because they can still be eaten or succumb to disease in the polyp stage.

But barring those threats, they could theoretically live and repeat this cycle infinitely! The phenomenon is called 'transdifferentiation' and has placed T.

dohrnii as a pinnacle of interest in the fields of biological and medical research..