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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 122 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jellyfish are cnidarians, a phylum which also includes corals and sea anemones. Jellyfish are a specific lifecycle stage of medusozoans (their own subphylum), while corals and sea anemones are anthozoans (another subphylum of Cnidaria).

So yup, they are polyps before sexual maturity. And you'll find they're more closely related to corals than they are to members of any other phylum.

Edit: I highly recommend that anyone who wants to get lost in the world of marine invertebrates check out WoRMS and then follow along in parallel on Wikipedia as you navigate the tree.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago

You just made up all those words.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Jellyfish are a subcagetorum of cthulonic phteven

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

You neved heard phylum before? You phylustine!

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
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[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 2 months ago

Do you think jellyfish grow in trees?

[-] mc900ftJesus@lemy.lol 29 points 2 months ago

Ahh immortality, I’m jelly.

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[-] mattd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Do you think you just fell out of the jellyfish tree?

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[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is a species of jellyfish which is functionally immortal. When they get too old they simply turn into children again and re-age.

Edit: I'm not saying it's not biologically immortal, I'm saying functionally immortal because I'm indicating that it can still be killed.

Saying something doesn't experience aging is not the same as insisting it cannot die.

2+2=4 is not less correct because 2x2 also equals 4.

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago

functionally immortal

Biologically immortal is the term you were looking for

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

I came here to say this... that shit is insane.

[-] Amanduh@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago
[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 months ago

Then they'll be unfunctionally immortal.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

They will be aerodynamically immortal.

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sort of like humans, but we turn into children again and die. Can't say we don't try tho.

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[-] Pothetato@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

This graphic is going counterclockwise and I didn't enjoy that. On the other hand, neat.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

I disagree, time should flow left to right and by the nature of the egg it starts with top-to-bottom. so you have to start on the left, go to the bottom, keep going right, then the jellyfish rises so go back to top and then complete the circle

[-] Redfox8@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

But what came first? The jellyfish or the egg??!!

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The answer is always the egg.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Always the egg.

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[-] somethingp@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

If you change your orientation, this could still be clockwise

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Yep if I look at the back of my phone, instead of this, it is indeed!

[-] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

In stasis, it bends but won't break us
Aurelia, majestic as a lion's roar embodies her
Terranean, threaten and shield us
Endanger, recoil and rewind the tapes
She's born again
[...]
Medusa, a haunting allure
Elusive ectoplasmic residue
She'll dance for you
Inducing hydro-cosmic dreams in you
Of eternal blue

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I've never read this, and I don't know if it's even a song or a poem or what... and yet somehow, I get the feeling that they're lyrics to a TOOL song.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Haken - sempiternal beings I had to look it up cause I was 100% with you on thinking TOOL.

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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Well, it's wild, but there's not a lot of fuck in it.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 3 points 2 months ago

Kinda fit, they have no fuck to give too.

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Jellyfish are creepy and gross, they're like living sea mushrooms.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Mushrooms are creepy and gross too, when you get to know them.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

fungi are conceptually lovecraftian horrors but in practice they're basically just strange plants, and i find that neat.

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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Nooo they're so cool. I could watch them all day.

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Fair enough, they just creep me out for some reason lol.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

The proud moment in every jellyfish's life when the buds come in.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

They also track sunlight so you can predict where they will be at certain times in areas with shade. Example: more likely to be closer to eastern shores in the mornings, further out at night.

[-] subtext@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I don’t believe any single part of this, it just can’t be true

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

the more you learn about how different species work the more your current worldview absolutely crumbles into dust and you see reality for the lawless mess that it is.

Barnacles are crustaceans, if you slice one in half you see that it's a fucked up deformed crayfish sitting inside the shell.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago

One species is immortal, and just does this cycle again when it gets old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii

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