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There is an 'immortal jellyfish' called Turritopsis dohrnii. Instead of dying it shrinks, absorbs its tentacles, settles on the seafloor as a blob-like cyst, becomes a polyp (the jellyfish's previous (www.nhm.ac.uk)

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[-] 2ndtryagain@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

So much of deep see life looks so completely from anything on land.

[-] v13@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah! It's really interesting. I'm personally afraid to go under water and check things out, I'm so fascinated by it though.

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