The life cycle of jellyfish can seem almost otherworldly. Some species are the closer to actual immortality than anything ...

This underwater immortal creature defies aging by reversing its life cycle, inspiring scientific research on regeneration and ...

What most of us would recognise as a jellyfish - the otherworldly, gelatinous aquatic animals renowned for their sting-filled tentacles - is actually just the final stage of these animals' life cycle.

The juvenile then starts the jellyfish’s life cycle all over again. It’s as if a frog, say, were to revert to a tadpole or a butterfly to a caterpillar. Scientists call the near-miraculous ...

Miglietta says that while the jellyfish life cycle has been reversed many times in the lab, nobody knows how often it happens or how long the jellyfish might survive in the wild. “Studying these ...

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 ...

This fingernail-sized, unassuming creature possesses the rare ability to revert back to its juvenile polyp stage after reaching maturity, which is an early stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish ...

A type of jellyfish that is rarely seen in UK waters ... This is because of their life cycle. "They reproduce very rapidly and produce thousands of tiny larvae. "In some years all of them will ...