Monday, April 5, 2010

Favorite animal of the week: Turritopsis nutricula

The biologically immortal jellyfish.

Only susceptible to death via predators and disease, this freaking incredible jelliedcreature can revert back to it's "child's state" whenever it desires, however often it desires, as not to ever actually age.

And it's really fun to say its name.

Behold.


3 comments:

  1. I love jelly fish so much that I wrote a poem about them. They remind me of little ghostly apostles.

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  2. They also remind me of little frayed silk bags

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  3. Yes, I love your comparisons! Totally right.

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