Meet the world's only immortal animal

Too bad it doesn't have a brain.

Has anyone tried to kill them yet? I'm sure they couldn't survive being cooked. Immortal my ass.

Wouldn't that suck to hit your sexual peak and have no other creatures like you around, Then lose it and meet up with a group...

If we coulkd incorporate this to human life we may become immortal but wheres the fun in this method. :(

Thats pretty cool. But Sounds boring.

puberty would suck again and again... hope fully we dont kill a jelly fishes thousand year living streak with our polution.

We need to learn to do that.

It would be very interesting to be able to study the animal for the secrets of longevity and immortality. Perhaps we can learn something about what it means to be immortal, I know I sure wouldn't mind living forever.

Some scientists believe that some of the earliest organisms didn't age at all. Aging came later in the evolutionary process as a byproduct of something else. What that something else is, is still a mystery.

wow....fucking incredible....and only through nature...

Interesting!

The article is wrong. This thing is no more immortal than almost any reptile. Once they reach maturity thier cells do not degenerate. As Heinlein put it, "No tortoise has ever died from old age". They live until they die of disease, predation, accident, etc.

Immortality is not unique, just not complete. Unless the author of the article is implying that this thing would survive an episode of Will it Blend?

Yes and you too can be immortal but only if you refert to being pre-pubescent and then go through puberty all over again!

i know lots of humans that revert back to childhood all the time (usually with enough alcohol as fuel...)

so once they're adults they go back to becoming kids :D so awesome

Speaking of immortal it would take me forever just to learn how to pronounce the scientific name!!!
Why are scientists elitists? Punks!!!

Amazing.

imagine that. hormones cycling worse than a menstrual cycle. FOREVER.

yeah, no thanks... the hydrozoans can keep it.

If there is a hell, that would be hell.

sorry but im uninterested in going through puberty again. No thanks- however it is very intriguing for sure.

And I thought kicking ass in Mortal Combat was the only way to immortality. Sick!

Hmmm... If humans did this, who would take care of them when they grew up again...? Rent-A-Parents?

im sorry, ive heard about these jelly fish or w/e the heck it is already and they DONT reverse their life back to infancy when they reach a certain sexual maturity... they ONLY do that reversing stuff when food is short and to avoid starvation thats when they literally go back to w/e the hell it is.... believe it! NYC public school ebonix for u there... haha

Thats insane. And we thought immortality wasn't possible for anything at all

Of course the animal is something under the sea.....

Imagine going back to middle school for the rest of your life. Terrible.

This should be studied for it's unique ability's of sustaining it's life.

So basically, these guys grow old enough to mate, and then get to go back to being a kid again? I've never felt such envy!

Makes sense, if you mutate the ability to not die then the population of you and your clone buddy and his clone buddy will keep growing exponentially until you are the population majority, Though with a lack in genetic variation, this species could easily be wiped out by a minor change in their niche.

That's pretty effen cool. Think if that process could be mimicked in different species.

OK, so it's like going through puberty over and over again. But seriously, this sounds llike a "process" that might work for humans. You would be getting that growth hormone adjustment each time you crossed the line between immature and nubile.

"The Curious Case of Turritopsis nutricula"

It would be kind of like "Groundhog Day" for a human.

Awesome

I'm going to assume that they are only immortal as long as their habitat is good... oh wait in a couple years we'll screw them over too. Whoops!

That sounds like a good life to me, you would never have to face adulthood.

That would suck to grow up then have to live your entire child hood over and over and over again, just floating in the sea.