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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Would be rad if we had little animals transforming into blobs and polyps, and back again on land. Oh, your little pet blob died? No worries it’s just reforming and will be back in a day or so.