The immortal jellyfish

[abrakamowse]

I am watching a series on Hulu called Bloom, it's Australian and I really liked it. The actors are really good and that caught me, and the story was interesting.

It's about a flooding and when it happened some people died. And in the places where they die, a plant grew with a special kind of fruit. And by accident they discovered that if you ate that fruit you become young again, so a lot of old people began to eat that fruit and become younger again, but only for a limited time.

The thing is that a kid told one of the old guys (that was young at that moment) that he was like a "Turritopsis dohrnii"

I couldn't avoid looking for that in google, so I did a search and it results that really there's a kind of Jellyfish that is immortal. In the sense that it can revert the aging process and go back to an immature jellyfish, a baby jellyfish and grow old again... and so on...

I was amazed and I wanted to share this in the forum. I am not sure if this is the correct section of the forum to post it, if you wanna move it to another section, it's Ok.

I also wanted to know if anyone else knew about it and what are their thoughts about this particular little being that can go back to a young age when it feels threatened. Here you can find the link to the wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii

And here there's an interesting article published in the new york times magazine about some scientists that are investigating that really crazy biological phenomena.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html

 

 

Edited October 26, 2020 by abrakamowse

[seeking_brilliance]

I think it's cool and the show sounds neat. The immortal jellyfish pairs perfectly with the resurrection plant ?

[abrakamowse]

4 hours ago, seeking_brilliance said:

I think it's cool and the show sounds neat. The immortal jellyfish pairs perfectly with the resurrection plant ?

Yeah, totally haha... It really caught me by surprise, because I never imagined that something like that could happen in real life.

It's like the stories you heard in fantasy or sci fi books, even though is just a small animal, it's really happening. Nature is so wise and resourceful.