Nature

One jellyfish species can reverse its own ageing and start life over

Turritopsis dohrnii, a jellyfish barely 4.5mm across, can respond to injury or starvation by reverting its adult cells back into an earlier polyp stage — biologically restarting its life cycle instead of dying. It's the only animal known to do this repeatedly, which is why biologists sometimes call it 'biologically immortal.'

Stefano Piraino et al., Reversing the Life Cycle: Medusae Transforming into Polyps and Cell Transdifferentiation in Turritopsis nutricula — The Biological Bulletin, 1996

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