Download Immortal Jellyfish Polyp Images. Why is turritopsis dohrnii called the immortal jellyfish? The immortal jellyfish begins it life as a larva, called a planula.

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This immortal jellyfish can live forever — and scientists are working to see if they can apply its from these polyps, a medusa, or jellyfish, forms, which breaks off from the branch after reaching. Scientists believe this life cycle can repeat indefinitely, potentially making this jellyfish immortal. It then grows into a cylindrical colony of polyps.

Japanese scarlet jellyfish is known as the immortal jellyfish.

The planula settles on the sea floor over time new genetically identical clones of the original jellyfish are released from the polyp in to. The polyps then bud off new jellies that grow into adults, and the cycle begins again. Jellyfish are very bizarre, they have no eyes, no heart, no brain and are very simple organisms. The immortal jellyfish begins it life as a larva, called a planula.