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The sea is full of amazing creatures and unsolved mysteries.
It could also be home to the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of all: how to turn back the ravages of time.
Oceanographic Magazine reports how it has been observed by the scientific community that Atlantic comb jellyfish – also known as the ‘comb jellyfish’ – have the capacity for ‘reverse development’ and ‘life cycle plasticity’. In other words, the jellyfish can age in reverse.
According to Interesting technologyresearchers in a recently published study on “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” detail how – under stressful conditions – the comb jelly can actually return from its adult state to larval form.
“The fact that we have found a new species that uses this peculiar ‘time travel machine’ raises fascinating questions about how widespread this capacity is across the animal tree of life,” said Joan J. Soto-Angel, one of the researchers behind the study and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Natural History and the University of Bergen.
Believe it or not, according to a press release the study showsComb jellyfish aren’t the first species to exhibit this age-defying talent: Turritopsis – also known as “the immortal jellyfish” – can also transform from an adult into a polyp.
“Witnessing them slowly transition into a typical cydippid larva, as if going back in time, was simply fascinating,” Soto-Angel added.
The press release explains that scientists want to further study such species for developmental biology and, of course, aging purposes.