Good
morning Tuesday, it is a lovely Tuesday here, not hot nor cold just
nice, I had a sleep in till 7am because I could and because I have
nothing to do today, I plan to stay of my feet as much as possible,
so my ankle can heal a bit.
As
you know Tuesday is indestructible creature day and today's creature
is the Immortal Jellyfish, with a name like Immortal I guess it must
be somewhat indestructible.
This
mysterious jellyfish is a tiny blob no bigger than a fingernail and
can do something incredible, instead of growing old it turns back
time and grows young again as weird as that sounds.
Like
other animals it reproduces normally and have larvae/ babies, which
turn into a tree-like polyp on a seabed and the newborn jellyfish
break off from it. However, when it gets old or ill, it can shrink
itself into a blob, which turns into a new jellyfish tree and from
that a new jellyfish is born. So one jellyfish can instead of dying
keep turning back into a polyp and be reborn, now that is weird.
Scientists
studying the jellyfish have seen them turn back into polyps again and
again in their labs but out at sea there are a lot of predators that
feed on the adult jellies, so it is unlikely that any one jellyfish
really would live forever at some point it would be eaten.
Hi Jo-Anne ... lucky you with that sleep in - I shall enjoy mine next week! Cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteYes as sleep in is nice
DeleteInteresting read Jo-Anne, one never knows where they are in the sea.
ReplyDeleteI know they are hidden in the sea
DeleteFascinating creatures! :)
ReplyDeleteYes they are
DeleteI think I'm becoming a blob...
ReplyDeleteReally, why would you think that
DeleteMy doctor tells me so, lol!
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