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'Benjamin Button' Jellyfish Are Immortal

Can revert to younger form and reproduce

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 3, 2009 11:41 AM CST

(Newser) – For some aging jellyfish, their best years may still be ahead: Faced with a threat, one species can essentially turn itself younger again, National Geographic reports. Turritopsis dohrnii reverts its cells to a “younger state,” says a researcher, and becomes a blob; from...   Read full story »

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