Hiroshima’s downtown is a garden of modern architecture interspersed with swaths of lovely green parks. In the center is a single structure, in ruins, capped by a skeleton of curved iron. This is the ...

Nathan Rich of the New York Times has put together an article about the apparent “immortal” jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, and how insights into its lifecycle could eventually lead to powerful ...

NY Times – The scientists described how the species (the immortal jellyfish – Turritopsis) — at any stage of its development — could transform itself back to a polyp, the organism’s earliest stage of ...

There are so many different types of jellyfish out there, boasting different sizes, shapes, colors, and more. The immortal jellyfish is one of these unique jellyfish with a certain skill not often ...

Turritopsis dohrnii follows a typical jellyfish life cycle, beginning as a larva and maturing into a polyp and then an adult medusa. However, it can revert to the polyp stage in response to stress or ...

Fleets of tiny translucent umbrellas, each about the size of a lentil, waft through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. These miniature jellyfish, known as Turritopsis dohrnii, wave and grasp with ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a gene responsible for the biological immortality of the Turritopsis dohrnii, commonly known as the “immortal jellyfish.” This unique species ...

Billionaires seeking eternal life (and sponsorship of startup companies in this field suggests there are several of them around) could do worse than study Turritopsis dohrnii, known colloquially as ...

Jellyfish are carnivores, so their diet mainly consists of other animals. This includes zooplankton, small crustaceans, small fish and other jellyfish, according to Oceana, an ocean conservation ...

Under stressful conditions, the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi can revert from a lobate adult stage to a cyddipid larva, depicted here. Animal life cycles typically follow a familiar pattern, declined ...