The Turritopsis dohrnii, commonly known as the immortal jellyfish, is one of nature’s most remarkable species. Unlike the alien-like trilobites that have gone extinct, this species has gained ...

This trick earned the species its nickname as the “immortal jellyfish,” a term Graham admits is a bit hyperbolic. The study was aimed at understanding what made this jellyfish different by ...

In 2009, she discovered that the Turritopsis living off Japan, Panama, Florida, Spain and Italy were all nearly identical genetically and classified them as the same species. So while the oceans are ...

Researchers believe that an “immortal” species of jellyfish that can reverse its ageing process holds the keys to understanding human ageing and pioneering new types of medicines. Most ...

An immortal species of jellyfish has double copies of genes that protect and repair DNA. The finding could provide clues to human ageing and age-related conditions. Jellyfish start their lives as ...

It has been dubbed the immortal jellyfish. When the medusa of this species is physically damaged or experiences stresses such as starvation, instead of dying it shrinks in on itself, reabsorbing its ...

A potentially "immortal" jellyfish species that can age backward—the Benjamin Button of the deep—is silently invading the world's oceans, swarm by swarm, a recent study says. Like the Brad ...

He and a team of researchers at the University of Oviedo in Spain mapped the genome of the immortal jellyfish (a species called Turritopsis dohrnii) and that of a similar jellyfish (Turritopsis ...