View Immortal Jellyfish Polyp Images. It then grows into a cylindrical colony of polyps. Turritopsis dohrnii is the only known animal to be immortal.

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How the jellyfish becomes immortal. Originating in the caribbean, it has now spread worldwide, and. The polyp colony of an immortal jellyfish © peter schuchert/world register of marine species.

This immortal jellyfish can live forever — and scientists are working to see if they can apply its from these polyps, a medusa, or jellyfish, forms, which breaks off from the branch after reaching.

If they starve or get sick as polyps, they do not regenerate and therefore die. Their regeneration does involve the same dna but. Originating in the caribbean, it has now spread worldwide, and. Like many jelly species, members of the group hydra have a polyp stage that reproduces asexually by budding.