The final pages detail the Turritopsis nutricula, also known as the immortal jellyfish, which appears to have the ability to regenerate itself, a fitting tribute to a book that itself captures the ...

During a visit to my laboratory in the 1980s, a German student, Christian Sommer, and my very first student, Giorgio Bavestrello, collected a hydrozoan thought to be Turritopsis nutricula. This small, ...

And it’s not just a theory. Meet Turritopsis dohrnii, a jellyfish that’s surprising the scientific community with its rare ability to reverse ageing and return to a younger form, potentially ...

BBC Earth describes this phenomenon vividly, “When the medusa of the immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) dies, it sinks to the ocean floor and begins to decay. Amazingly, its cells then ...