Turritopsis nutricula is a hydrozoan, and it’s considered by scientists to be the only animal that can cheat death and characteristics associated with death.
Solitary organisms are doomed to die, after they completed their life cycle. Hydrozoa are a huge class of predatory animals that live mostly in saltwater, closely related to jellyfish and corals. Eggs and sperm from an adult jellyfish (medusa) and they then develop into polyp stage. Medusae evolve asexually from polyps. Read the rest of this entry »
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