Cheating Death... By Aging Backwards
Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 07:31
in Biology & Nature
On one of my recent safari’s through the internet jungle, I came across a remarkable little creature. It’s a small (maximum diameter about 4.5 millimeters) bell-shaped jellyfish, with a number of tentacles ranging from 8 in young specimens to 90 in adult ones. It’s name is Turritopsis nutricula (see figure 1), and it can actually age backwards. A cnidarian Benjamin Button, as it were. Figure 1: The immortal jellyfish, T. nutricula.(Source: zmescience) read more